Contributions¶
- Linux kernel
Added supported vendor to driver’s help text. I happened to have an Acer tablet I couldn’t find the touch driver for.
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e02aea9132cf40e8ef111588b06a93956fe77545- util-linux
Added support for
rename -s
https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/5a2a8177f8b9cf9be26874baf51fb336760fe64b- Gentoo
Been a Gentoo Developer at 2013 - 2017 and did
initial rewrite of twisted.eclass for newer EAPI
contributed new packages
fixed packaging and upstream bugs
- Collectd
Added HTTP Response Code monitoring.
https://github.com/collectd/collectd/pull/320Reported an interesting change in libpcap impacting downstream projects.
https://github.com/collectd/collectd/issues/308- Paramiko
Reported a large performance regression, helped identify the problematic commit and verify a fix.
https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/issues/370- OpenSUSE
Contributed a bunch of packages.
Contributed to cabal-rpm to make it more usable for OpenSUSE packaging.
- Golang
Fixed json-rpc server result to be nil on error responses to conform to the json-rpc standard.
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/7442- swagger-codegen
Opened a numerous issues when I used it to design a REST API.
- Groovy
Reported dead code and overzealous stack trace filtering
https://github.com/apache/groovy/pull/277
https://github.com/apache/groovy/pull/256- Suds
Patched a NullPointerException kind of bug and sent it to the maintainer who expanded it into commits r707 and r708.
I believe this was my first FOSS contribution some time at 2011.
- Other