DeveloperResponsibilities

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General advice

For those new to Ubuntu development, it can be difficult to find out who is responsible for particular components. Often, it is sufficient to just file a bug and trust Launchpad to deliver the information to the right people for you. However, it can be useful to talk to people informally first.

Many Ubuntu packages do not have maintainers in Ubuntu as such. Since we inherit many packages from Debian unchanged, the responsible person is often the corresponding Debian maintainer. When there is a responsible person in Ubuntu, sometimes the Maintainer field will tell you. For example:

$ apt-cache show upstart | grep ^Maintainer:
Maintainer: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>

However, sometimes this will just be a generic mailing list. For example:

$ apt-cache show hal | grep ^Maintainer:
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>

You can look for consistent contributors in the changelog (/usr/share/doc/PACKAGE/changelog.Debian.gz, or /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE/changelog.gz for native packages). Remember that the last uploader may just have been making a "drive-by" fix and not have a significant ongoing interest in or knowledge of the package.

The list of Launchpad bug contacts for the package (which can be found at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/PACKAGE) may be helpful. However, it may also contain non-developers who registered an interest in bugs filed on the package but do not contribute to it.

Specific responsibilities

Where general techniques do not help, the following list may do. This is not a canonical list of maintainers by any stretch of the imagination, but it may be a useful guideline. Please help to keep this list up to date! Please do not be offended if your name has been omitted, but instead add it where appropriate.

Component

Developer(s) (ircnick)

Accessibility

Henrik Nilsen Omma (heno), Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

ACPI, power management

Andy Whitcroft (apw), Stefan Bader (smb)

apport

Martin Pitt (pitti)

ARM

Loic Minier (lool), Oliver Grawert (ogra), Amit Kucheria (amitk)

Artwork

Ken Wimer (kwwii)

Bug management tools

Brian Murray (bdmurray)

Build infrastructure

LaMont Jones (lamont)

Checkbox

David Murphy (schwuk), Marc Tardif (cr3)

Cluster tools

Chuck Short (zul)

Compiz

Michael Vogt (mvo), Travis Watkins (Amaranth)

Desktop testing

Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)

DMRaid

Luke Yelvich (TheMuso)

Documentation (includes ubuntu-docs, gnome-user-docs)

DocumentationTeam/Contact or contact MatthewEast (mdke)

Encrypted file systems

Martin Pitt (pitti), Reinhard Tartler (siretart), Dustin Kirkland (kirkland), Tim Gardner (rtg)

Germinate, seeds

Colin Watson (cjwatson), Robbie Williamson (robbiew)

GNOME desktop

Sebastien Bacher (seb128), Pedro Villavicencio (pedro), Martin Pitt (pitti), many others

udisks/upower/polkit/Mounting

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Installer (debian-installer, ubiquity, oem-config)

Colin Watson (cjwatson), Evan Dandrea (evand)

Internationalisation (fonts, input methods, etc.)

Arne Götje (ArneGoetje)

Java

Matthias Klose (doko), Thierry Carrez (ttx)

Jockey

Martin Pitt (pitti), Alberto Milone (tseliot)

KDE desktop

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell), Sarah Kowalik (Hobbsee)

KVM

Dustin Kirkland (kirkland)

Language packs

Martin Pitt (pitti), Arne Götje (ArneGoetje)

Linux kernel

Pete Graner (pgraner), Tim Gardner (rtg)

Mozilla (Firefox, Thunderbird)

Fabien Tassin (Ubulette), Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)

MySQL

Mathias Gug (mathiaz)

MythTV

Mario Limonciello (superm1)

NetworkManager

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox), Reinhard Tartler (siretart)

OpenOffice.org

Chris Cheney (calc)

Packaging tools (APT, Synaptic, update-manager, etc.)

Michael Vogt (mvo)

Printing

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

Python

Matthias Klose (doko)

Release management

Robbie Williamson (robbiew), Martin Pitt (pitti)

Samba

Mathias Gug (mathiaz)

Security

Please see SecurityTeam/Contacts

Sound (ALSA, PulseAudio)

David Henningsson (diwic), Daniel T. Chen (crimsun), Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

Toolchain (GCC, binutils, etc.)

Matthias Klose (doko)

Toolchain (glibc, LLVM, etc.)

Adam Conrad (infinity)

Translations

David Planella (dpm), <ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com> (ubuntu and canonical addresses whitelisted)

Ubuntu Studio

Cory Kontros (_MMA_), Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

udev

Scott James Remnant (Keybuk), Tim Gardner (rtg), Martin Pitt (pitti)

Upstart

Scott James Remnant (Keybuk)

usb-creator

Evan Dandrea (evand)

Virtualization (KVM, Xen, libvirt, ...)

Soren Hansen (soren)

X.org

RAOF, Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)

Xubuntu

Cody Somerville, Lionel de Folgoc (Xfce4 packages)

Fallback

If there is no contact listed above, try one of these general contacts:

Desktop

Jason Warner (jasoncwarner)

Server

Robbie Williamson (robbiew)

Mobile

David Mandala (davidm)

Kernel

Pete Graner (pgraner)

QA

Pete Graner (pgraner)

Foundations (plumbing)

Steve Langasek (vorlon)


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DeveloperResponsibilities (last edited 2013-09-27 10:37:51 by adconrad)