I’m Robie Basak (IRC: rbasak; Launchpad: racb). I’d also like to stand again for the Technical Board.
I’ve been using GNU/Linux since the late nineties, professionally as a sysadmin since 2001, Ubuntu as a power user/developer since about 2005, and have been working on Ubuntu itself since I joined Canonical in 2011. My first sponsored upload to Ubuntu was in 2011, I became an uploader in 2013, and a Core Dev in 2014. I’ve served on the DMB and SRU teams since 2016, and the Technical Board since 2020. I’m also a Debian Developer since 2018.
I’ll be leaving Canonical at the end of January. I don’t expect to be working full time on Ubuntu itself any more, but I will continue to be involved. If I am re-elected, I will continue this role in a personal capacity from February.
Since I’ve been around a while you can judge me on my past performance. You will have seen that I’m active. I don’t just show up to vote; when I think something needs fixing, I start a discussion in the appropriate public forum, achieve consensus, and fix it as appropriate according to that consensus. I don’t mind if the consensus didn’t match my original opinion. I don’t avoid difficult or contentious topics. The harder problems need much more time and perseverance to solve, and I happily tackle these too.
To help you measure my past performance, here’s my platform from 2020 and from 2022. My opinions from those previous platforms still stand.
Some things I’m proud to have achieved recently:
- The policy on third party software sources, which brings clarity to users and sets expectations on how snaps should interact with apt and the Ubuntu (deb) archive, default Ubuntu installations, and build provenance.
- The new SRU documentation which is part of my bigger effort to properly fix the common mismatch in expectations between uploaders and the SRU team.
- Like Alex I also helped staff the core dev office hours booth at the Summit, along with Lena and others. This led to an interview on Ask Noah, representing the Technical Board. I think I represented Ubuntu well there, but please judge for yourself!
Thank you for considering me!