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I am Andy Whitcroft a member of the Canonical Kernel Team. I help to maintain the Ubuntu kernels and related packages for all actively supported Ubuntu releases. I am involved in handling bug reported by the community as well as working on longer term projects.

Ubuntu Contributions

Jaunty Development

• Mainline kernel packaging - I am involved in a Jaunty project to automatically package mainline kernels to simplify Ubuntu regression detection,

• suspend/resume stress testing - one of the Kernel Teams Jaunty goals is to improve suspend/resume fucntionality, I am involved developing the stress testing and the automated reporting harness, and

• Kernel tree management review - I performed a review of our tree management proceedures to help document the current processes and see how they could be improved. (link to UDS blueprint)

Bugs

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/~apw

Packaging

• https://launchpad.net/~apw/+packages

General Open Source Contributions

Upstream Maintainer

I have authored and continue to maintain the following open source projects:

• checkpatch - I am the maintainer for the kernel source code automated style checker used to maintain code quality in a large part of the Linux kernel,

• conmux - I am maintainer for the console multiplexor project, and

• autotest - I am co-maintainer for the autotest project concentrating on the autotest

client side harness.

Upstream Projects

I have previously contributed functionality to the following upstream projects:

• Linux Kernel - memory management, large pages

• git - svn interface fixes

Publications

• find links to papers and the like

Community Networking

Sponsors

I would like to thank the following people for sponsoring my uploads:

• TimGardner, SteveLangasek

Ubuntu Membership Endorsements

• TBC