DustinKirkland

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Email:
kirkland@canonical.com
kirkland@ubuntu.com
dustin.kirkland@gmail.com
GPG: 83A61194
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Launchpad: kirkland
Location: Austin, TX
Blog: blog.dustinkirkland.com

I am Dustin Kirkland, a developer on Canonical's Ubuntu ServerTeam.

My objective is to develop, extend, package, and support the software that comprises Ubuntu's Server, making it easy to use and secure. I actively triage and fix bug reports against Ubuntu Server packages.

Ubuntu Contributions

Community Tools

Jaunty Development (Proposals)

Intrepid Development

Hardy Development

General Contributions

Bugs

Packaging

Debian Efforts

Upstream Maintainer

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

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

Community Networking

Sponsors

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

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)