I can vouch for Daniel's long history working on desktop components and am sure he'll continue to do great work on Ubuntu desktop. +1 from me makes 3/3 - adding him to the team now.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 6:47 PM Sebastien Bacher <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey desktopers, > > I've worked with Daniel for a long time and I'm confident that he can be > trusted with access to the desktop set. He demonstrated high quality > work on our different desktop environments over the year, is one of our > top upstream contributors to GNOME and understands the Ubuntu > cycles/community/processes (SRU, freezes, ...). He's already actively > working on our desktop packages on launchpad and salsa and having direct > access should make things easier for everyone. > > +1 from me! > > Cheers, > Sébastien Bacher > > On 18/06/2024 07:16, Daniel van Vugt wrote: > > Hi desktoppers, > > > > I would like to be considered for membership in the ubuntu-desktop team. > > > > Starting as a Linux user in the 1990s, I moved to Ubuntu around about > 2007. In > > 2011 I started contributing to the Unity desktop and was asked to join > > Canonical. In 2012 I joined the Canonical Desktop team as the full time > > maintainer of Compiz underlying the Unity desktop. In 2013 I moved onto > the Mir > > team and stayed there until 2017 when I returned to the Canonical > Desktop team > > where I remain today. > > > > Throughout this time I've had countless uploads sponsored, and have > remained > > the top (human) contributor to bug management karma in Ubuntu for most > of a decade. > > > > Being able to upload packages myself would remove the biggest delay I > > experience in my daily work and make the whole team slightly more > efficient. > > Thanks for your consideration... > > > > - Daniel > > > > > > -- > ubuntu-desktop mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop >
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