Pragyansh Chaturvedi | Membership Application

Community Membership
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Hi
I am Pragyansh Chaturvedi, and I would like to apply to be an Ubuntu Contributing Developer.

About Me

My name is Pragyansh Chaturvedi, but you can also call me Raikou.

I first installed Ubuntu in 2020 when I started studying at the university. Soon after, I installed it on one of my older laptops to breathe some life into it and installed and maintained Ubuntu Server on all my university lab’s machines.

I now work for Canonical as part of the Foundations/Architectures team (started Aug 2024).

Contact Info

  • IRC: r41k0u
  • Launchpad: ~r41k0u
  • Matrix: @r41k0u:ubuntu.com
  • Discourse: r41k0u

Contributions

I have primarily contributed to stuff concerning Ubuntu on Raspberry Pi. Here is a list of my uploads. You can also learn more about my work from the weekly Foundations updates.
Since these might be difficult to review, I am listing my major contributions:

libcamera, rpicam-apps and picamera2

raspi-utils

A replacement for multiple tools previously under raspberrypi-userland.

nbd-client

Fix the autopkgtests to unblock promotion to main.

Misc fixes (includes proposed migrations and +1 maintenance)

Merges and Syncs performed till now (might include stuff already mentioned):

  • libcamera
  • needrestart
  • libdebian-installer
  • powerpc-utils

MIRs (might include stuff already mentioned):

  • libpisp
  • raspi-utils
  • nlohmann-json

ISO Testing

I participated in testing the images for Ubuntu on Raspberry Pi during the Oracular release and Noble .2 release.

Future Goals

I’m not alone in deciding the roadmap for the team, but here are some things I would be working on with @waveform in the near future:

  • Adding support for automated hardware testing for Raspberry Pi
  • Adding support for more third party hardware (HATs) for Ubuntu on Raspberry Pi.

Our goal is to make Ubuntu a strong and practical choice for Raspberry Pi users where they don’t have to compromise on features, usability and stability.
As for me personally, I would be improving my distro skills to gain the required upload rights so I can perform my work more smoothly.

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I’ve worked with Pragyansh since he started at Canonical, and have absolutely no hesitation in endorsing his application for Ubuntu membership.

His enthusiasm is matched only by his effort, and he’s made significant contributions to Ubuntu above and beyond what I’ve been asking of him (like jumping into +1 maintenance). I’m looking forward to what we can accomplish with Ubuntu on the Pi!

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Hello r41k0u, please add yourself to the meeting schedule for the meeting you would like to attend.

I see you did add yourself to the wiki, we are trying to move away from using the wiki, we still need to update the wiki to direct applicants back to discourse to schedule there meetings I see, apologies.

Regards

Wild Man

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I’ve interacted with Pragyansh mostly libtraceevent on s390x. This is a single line in the list above but it was multi-layered and Pragyansh followed through all the steps: from the debugging on s390x to upstreaming and now an SRU on oracular, and including the inclusion in Debian.

This echoes Dave’s comment about his enthusiasm and effort which have quickly struck me as well.

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Hi
Pragyansh, just want to make sure you plan to attend the scheduled meeting tomorrow because Simon mentioned that the DMB may process your application?

We do not want to gather everyone if you are going to go through the DMB.

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Hi
Yes, the DMB is processing my application

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Thank you for letting us know.

Best wishes on you being accepted.