AndyWhitcroft
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)
General Contributions
Bugs
Packaging
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:
Ubuntu Membership Endorsements
- TBC