Call for nominations: 2024 Ubuntu Technical Board

Hello,

I am Gianfranco Costamagna, locutusofborg on IRC, costamagnagianfranco on Launchpad.
I am Ubuntu Core Developer since 2016, MOTU since 2015, and also Debian Developer since 2014.

I have been the person who did upload the most number of packages for various Ubuntu releases http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~stefanor/ubuntu-activity/
And I still contribute a lot, by maintaining virtualbox/haskell/sdl/libpng and other hundred of libraries, helping to make them migrate, fixing bugs and autopkgtests.

In my dailyjob I work with Linux in embedded world, bringing my competences in Ubuntu and vice-versa.

As an engineer, I like to simplify things, to fix bugs and try to understand how to change the architecture in case the fix is showing some structural issues in a package. I like no-delta between Debian and Ubuntu, I sponsor only after a Debian bug has been opened in case the bug is not Ubuntu-only, and I care to send patches upstream and get them integrated.

In the last years I worked a lot on riscv64 and loong64 bring up (this is the current port I’m fixing in Debian at the moment), helping to reach an archive success build rate above 96%

Cheers,

Gianfranco

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