canonical/mir
Mar 2025 – Oct 2025
4 Months active
Languages Used
Debian packagingCC++MarkdownShellbashcmakeBash
Technical Skills
DocumentationTypo correctionAPI DesignAPI DevelopmentBug FixBug Fixing
Alan Griffiths
PROFILE
Alan Griffiths
Alan Griffiths contributed to the canonical/mir repository by delivering 35 features and resolving 17 bugs over four months, focusing on platform integration, documentation, and code quality. He modernized the codebase using C++ and CMake, refactored APIs for consumer clarity, and centralized locale and input configuration to streamline user experience. Alan enhanced testing workflows and CI/CD processes, improved packaging for Debian, and maintained release readiness through detailed documentation and changelog management. His work included architectural diagramming with Mermaid, dependency isolation, and migration to standard libraries, resulting in a more maintainable, stable, and user-friendly platform for both developers and end users.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
67%Features
Repository Contributions
114Total
Bugs
17
Commits
114
Features
35
Lines of code
3,072
Activity Months4
Your Network
380 people
Work History
October 2025
13 Commits • 4 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025: Mir repository (canonical/mir) delivered key release readiness and code health improvements for Mir 2.22.0, with a focus on business value and technical reliability. Highlights include consolidated release notes and a clean changelog for 2.22.0, targeted bug fixes that stabilize the testing surface, and modernization of the codebase. In addition, testing workflow enhancements and CI/release alignment were implemented to improve release velocity and reproducibility.
13 Commits • 4 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025: Mir repository (canonical/mir) delivered key release readiness and code health improvements for Mir 2.22.0, with a focus on business value and technical reliability. Highlights include consolidated release notes and a clean changelog for 2.22.0, targeted bug fixes that stabilize the testing surface, and modernization of the codebase. In addition, testing workflow enhancements and CI/release alignment were implemented to improve release velocity and reproducibility.
October 2025
September 2025
76 Commits • 23 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 monthly summary for canonical/mir. This month focused on delivering substantial documentation and architecture improvements, strengthening platform stability, and enhancing direct user and developer value through UX refinements and reliable packaging. Key features delivered: - Documentation improvements and cleanup across contributing, configuring, and consuming pages, with streamlined tutorials and content pruning to reduce onboarding time. - Documentation and Architecture Diagram Improvements, including relocation of end-user docs to configuring, moving "How To Enable Screencasting" to the configuration area, introducing a consumer-oriented architecture page, and layout tweaks to mirserver.mmd and libraries.mmd. - Architecture and API evolution: Miral API surface cleanup to focus on consumer-facing APIs, API reference revisions, and a broader refactor to clarify consumer usage. - Dependency and test framework updates: updated tests and build/test pipeline to rely on libdisplay_info and libinput (graphics/common and test frameworks), and tightened packaging to remove public dependencies on internal libraries. - UX and defaults enhancements: added and refined pointer/touchpad customization (scroll speeds, acceleration, bias, click mode, and middle-click emulation) with sensible default values and reorganized settings for easier discovery. Major bugs fixed: - RTD Style Rendering Bug: fixed style rendering on Read the Docs to ensure documentation is legible and consistent. - Documentation links and navigation: fixed broken links (e.g., Get in touch, missing links) and tidied up landing/configuration pages to improve navigability. - Tutorial and diagram reliability: fixed issues in the first consumer tutorial, Mermaid diagrams on RTD, and punctuation/whitespace cleanups to improve readability. - Miscellaneous stability: preserved magnifier state across settings reloads and addressed related minor stability issues. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Accelerated onboarding and reduced support workload via clearer, more navigable docs and a consumer-focused API/architecture narrative. - Improved release readiness through dependency isolation, packaging hardening, and robust test dependencies. - A more predictable out-of-the-box experience and clearer guidance for integrating Wayland extensions and desktop environment flows. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Deep integration work with graphics/testing stacks (libdisplay_info, libinput), Miriway-derived configuration, and Miral API surface handling. - Architectural refactoring and API surface cleanup to emphasize consumer-facing APIs. - Documentation tooling, diagram layout refinement (Mermaid), and documentation quality controls (link integrity, consistency, punctuation).
September 2025
76 Commits • 23 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 monthly summary for canonical/mir. This month focused on delivering substantial documentation and architecture improvements, strengthening platform stability, and enhancing direct user and developer value through UX refinements and reliable packaging. Key features delivered: - Documentation improvements and cleanup across contributing, configuring, and consuming pages, with streamlined tutorials and content pruning to reduce onboarding time. - Documentation and Architecture Diagram Improvements, including relocation of end-user docs to configuring, moving "How To Enable Screencasting" to the configuration area, introducing a consumer-oriented architecture page, and layout tweaks to mirserver.mmd and libraries.mmd. - Architecture and API evolution: Miral API surface cleanup to focus on consumer-facing APIs, API reference revisions, and a broader refactor to clarify consumer usage. - Dependency and test framework updates: updated tests and build/test pipeline to rely on libdisplay_info and libinput (graphics/common and test frameworks), and tightened packaging to remove public dependencies on internal libraries. - UX and defaults enhancements: added and refined pointer/touchpad customization (scroll speeds, acceleration, bias, click mode, and middle-click emulation) with sensible default values and reorganized settings for easier discovery. Major bugs fixed: - RTD Style Rendering Bug: fixed style rendering on Read the Docs to ensure documentation is legible and consistent. - Documentation links and navigation: fixed broken links (e.g., Get in touch, missing links) and tidied up landing/configuration pages to improve navigability. - Tutorial and diagram reliability: fixed issues in the first consumer tutorial, Mermaid diagrams on RTD, and punctuation/whitespace cleanups to improve readability. - Miscellaneous stability: preserved magnifier state across settings reloads and addressed related minor stability issues. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Accelerated onboarding and reduced support workload via clearer, more navigable docs and a consumer-focused API/architecture narrative. - Improved release readiness through dependency isolation, packaging hardening, and robust test dependencies. - A more predictable out-of-the-box experience and clearer guidance for integrating Wayland extensions and desktop environment flows. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Deep integration work with graphics/testing stacks (libdisplay_info, libinput), Miriway-derived configuration, and Miral API surface handling. - Architectural refactoring and API surface cleanup to emphasize consumer-facing APIs. - Documentation tooling, diagram layout refinement (Mermaid), and documentation quality controls (link integrity, consistency, punctuation).
August 2025
24 Commits • 8 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 monthly summary for canonical/mir focusing on delivering business value through platform integration, code quality improvements, and expanded testing. Key outcomes include API hygiene refactors, centralization of locale handling, Mir platform integration, enhanced surface size handling, and packaging/docs updates with broader smoke testing. The work emphasizes stability, maintainability, and platform compatibility to accelerate feature delivery with fewer regressions.
24 Commits • 8 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 monthly summary for canonical/mir focusing on delivering business value through platform integration, code quality improvements, and expanded testing. Key outcomes include API hygiene refactors, centralization of locale handling, Mir platform integration, enhanced surface size handling, and packaging/docs updates with broader smoke testing. The work emphasizes stability, maintainability, and platform compatibility to accelerate feature delivery with fewer regressions.
August 2025
March 2025
1 Commits
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 (canonical/mir) — Focused on documentation quality and release-readiness. No new code features delivered this month; primary work was documenting and polishing release notes to support Debian packaging.
March 2025
1 Commits
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 (canonical/mir) — Focused on documentation quality and release-readiness. No new code features delivered this month; primary work was documenting and polishing release notes to support Debian packaging.
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Quality Metrics
Correctness93.6%
Maintainability94.2%
Architecture91.2%
Performance90.2%
AI Usage20.0%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
BashCC++CMakeDebian packagingMarkdownMermaidShellYAMLbash
Technical Skills
API DesignAPI DevelopmentArchitecture VisualizationBug FixBug FixingBuild SystemBuild System ConfigurationBuild System ManagementBuild System OptimizationBuild SystemsC++C++ DevelopmentC/C++ Build ToolsCI/CDCMake
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