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Summary

My name is James Hunt, and I work for Canonical as a member of the FoundationsTeam working on Upstart and other early-boot and plumbing technologies.

Info

• https://launchpad.net/~jamesodhunt/

Specs

• FoundationsTeam/Specs/MaverickFinishUpstart

Contributions

Natty

• Upstart

  • Added Debug stanza (not documented).

  • Added Manual stanza.

  • Added Override File support.

  • Wrote Upstart bash-completion script.

  • Implemented initctl show-config and initctl check-config commands (see man page.

  • Wrote init-checkconf(8).

  • Wrote initctl2dot(8).

  • Wrote comprehensive upstart-events(7) manual page.

  • Improved unit/functional tests by adding ability to run "init" and "initctl" directly.

  • Co-authored the "Upstart Cookbook" (currently Draft):

    • http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/

• Byobu

  • Wrote /usr/lib/byobu/time_binary.

  • Wrote /usr/bin/byobu-ulevel.

  • Wrote /usr/bin/byobu-ugraph.

• Miscellaneous

  • Wrote Plymouth wiki page.

  • Wrote Section 0 of UDD GettingTheSource page.

  • Wrote clone tool (similar to unshare(1)).

Oneiric

• Made significant progress on:

  • https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-o-upstart-for-admins/

  • 328881: implementation of Job logging for Upstart (complicated by need to support user jobs).

Significant Bugs

• 771372: required taking a holistic approach and seeing the real problem, not just patching the very particular problem reported.

Contact

• mailto:james.hunt@ubuntu.com

• freenode irc: jodh on #ubuntu-devel & #upstart

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