DustinKirkland
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I am Dustin Kirkland, a developer on Canonical's Ubuntu ServerTeam. |
Ubuntu Contributions
Community Tools
Jaunty Development (Proposals)
- Encrypted swap space by default
IscsiInitiator: iSCSI support in the installer
SwapfileAtInstallation: swapfiles support in the installer
SELinux/AppArmor protection of EncryptedPrivateDirectory
InitScriptStatusActions: determining if a service is running or not
Working with Canonical's ISV Partners for the Ubuntu Server
Intrepid Development
EncryptedPrivateDirectory: encrypted ~/Private directories in each user's home
BootDegradedRaid: booting from a degraded RAID
InitScriptStatusActions: determining if a service is running or not
- Virtualization (backed up Soren for a bit): HAL/PolicyKit enablement of /dev/kvm, kvm/qemu evdev fixes, virtio fixes
- Per-user editor selection (select-editor) in debianutils
Working with Canonical's ISV Partners for the Ubuntu Server
Hardy Development
InitScriptStatusActions: determining if a service is running or not
- ISO testing
- Hardware enablement and certification testing
Working with Canonical's ISV Partners for the Ubuntu Server
General Contributions
Bugs
Packaging
Debian Efforts
debianutils select-editor - created a patch to support a per-user default editor selector interface (select-editor) and tying that into Debian's sensible-editor
ltp maintenance (proposed)
- Bugs reported / patches submitted:
- 470091, 482284, 482774, 483285, 488275, 489830, 490095, 490233, 492126, 492131, 492138, 498492
Upstream Maintainer
I have authored and continue to maintain the following open source projects:
eCryptfs - https://launchpad.net/ecryptfs
update-motd - https://launchpad.net/update-motd
Musica - https://launchpad.net/musica
Pictor - https://launchpad.net/pictor
Lynx-Web-App - https://launchpad.net/lynx-web-app
Ubuntu Manpage Repository - http://manpages.ubuntu.com
Ubuntu Documentation Search - http://people.ubuntu.com/~kirkland/search.html
Upstream Projects
I have previously contributed functionality to the following upstream projects:
Linux (kernel) - audit subsystem (comparators), SELinux labels
Audit (Linux audit userspace subsystem) - comparators
Yaboot (PowerPC bootloader) - software RAID, bootonce
Anaconda (Red Hat/Fedora installer) - software RAID for PowerPC, incremental ISO integrity check
Autotest (automated testing framework) - ltp-diff, conmux
LTP (Linux Test Project) - various tests for EAL certification
Publications
Linux Software RAID - http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/library/os-ltc-filesystems/Linux-Software-RAID-Tutorial.pdf
Bogo Sec - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-bogosec.html
Linux system auditing by example (acknowledged for code) - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-security-audit.html
Community Networking
Sponsors
I would like to thank the following people for sponsoring my uploads:
AdamConrad, BryceHarrington, ChuckShort, ColinWatson, emgent, EvanDandrea, JamieStrandboge, KeesCook, LaMontJones, LukeYelavich, MartinPitt, MathiasGug, MatthiasKlose, SorenHansen, SteveLangasek
Ubuntu Membership Endorsements
I support Dustin's quest to become a Ubuntu member. He has showed alot of knowledge and experience that I appreciate. He would be a good member of the community -- ChuckShort (zul)
Dustin's done great work, and he's a quick learner. Big +1 from me as well. -- KeesCook (kees)
I'm happy that I get to work with Dustin every day. He's very enthusiastic about Ubuntu and I'd certainly consider him ubuntu member material. -- SorenHansen
Ubuntu MOTU Endorsements
Dustin has been a very enthusiastic and knowledgeable Ubuntu developer for several months now, and I have had long and great discussions with him. He mastered the day-to-day packaging arts and never hesitates to ask for advice when in doubt. He has clear goals for the server area and is working on them consistently. I am happy to advocate him to become a MOTU. -- MartinPitt (pitti)
I'm a advocate of Dustin gaining MOTU privileges. He's conscientious and has a good knack for finding well thought out compromises when weighing conflicting needs. I've been very happy with the quality the packaging work I've seen. -- KeesCook (kees)
I've been following Dustin's work on several projects and have been impressed with how he not only solves a given problem, but looks for ways to solve that entire class of problems. I suspect he'll be a huge asset on the MOTU team. -- BryceHarrington (bryce)
Dustin is one of the key member of the Ubuntu Server team. He has excellent ideas for improvements and always discusses them with other developers. He is able to produce technical solutions of very high quality. I highly recommend him for being part of MOTU. -- MathiasGug (mathiaz)
I work with Dustin on a day to day basis and have sponsored several of his packages. His work is of high quality, and he also possesses two of most important traits for being a good Ubuntu developer/contributor: he asks questions (while critically accepting the answers) and learns from his past efforts. I whole-heartedly recommend Dustin for MOTU. -- JamieStrandboge (jdstrand)
I've sponsored some of Dustin's changes and given some advice on his manual page repository work. Generally speaking his work has been of good quality and he's taken on board comments from others quickly and without fuss. I think he knows his way around by now and I'd be happy to recommend him as a MOTU. -- ColinWatson (cjwatson)
Ubuntu Core Developer Endorsements
I've sponsored many of Dustin's uploads to "main", and I've been very happy with his work. As I said for his MOTU application, he's conscientious, and that's important. In addition to being familiar with the workflows and schedules of Ubuntu, Dustin knows when to ask for help. His work in the initramfs code has me convinced he knows how to be effective when touching so many subsystems at the same time. I'd be very happy to see him with "main" upload privileges. -- KeesCook (kees)
I've also sponsored several of Dustin's uploads to "main", and am happy with his work. Dustin is driven to good work, has learned a lot about Debian packaging and Ubuntu processes, and asks questions when something isn't clear. I've worked with him quite a bit with his ecryptfs-utils work, and I can say he takes constructive criticism well, stands up for what he believes is right, and works well with the community. All of these qualities are very important for an Ubuntu Core Developer. -- JamieStrandboge (jdstrand)