I, Yao Wei, apply for Ubuntu Membership.
About Me
My name is Yao Wei, some people may know me as an Canonical employee at OEM Enablement team, and I’ve worked for 3+ years for debugging issues on laptops and desktops that is going to have Ubuntu shipped with them.
I am also a not-so-active Debian Developer but sometimes do use their account for Ubuntu contributions (e.g. GNOME Desktop packages)
Contributions
Debian
- Uploaded font building related packages in Debian to satisfy requirements of fonts building from source in Debian infrastructure.
- For a few time, uploaded some Chinese IME related packages.
- (For actual list of packages, please refer to UDD)
- Helped holding DebConf 18 in Hsinchu, Taiwan, supported in 17 in Montreal, Canada and 19 in Curitiba, Brazil
Ubuntu
- In order to fix issues for OEM desktop/laptop systems, and provide images to the customers, I have (usually bugfix) contributions for the follow packages:
- GNOME Desktop packages
- mutter: Touchscreen gets disabled after resume from suspend in Xorg session
- gnome-shell: Monitor switcher popup (Super-P) is not displayed on desktop with joined display on Wayland
- gnome-initial-setup: Language selection is skipped for new installations
- gnome-control-center: System Details incorrectly shows multiple GPUs
- Installer-related packages
- Added factory-reset-tools for OEM PC end users to create USB Reset Media (This is part of u-d-p)
- Reported/coworked/fixed some of the issues regarding to installing to RAID disks:
- LP: #2094979 - Fix an issue where a IMSM RAID device would be misinterpreted as a multipath device.
- LP: #2095141 - Fix an issue where the reset GRUB option would not be generated during a factory reset involved a RAID disk.
- LP: #2098075 - Fix an issue where a second ESP would be created instead of reusing the existing one - when installing in a gap of an IMSM RAID.
- Image-building related
- Other packages that’s needed for enabling new systems in an LTS release
- For details: Assigned bugs : Bugs : Yao Wei, as well as medicalwei (Yao Wei) · GitHub
- GNOME Desktop packages
Future Goals
I would like to speed up uploading of OEM support packages and fixes, while keeping the quality Ubuntu is known for. I believe our team provides important foundations for new PC hardware support.
