JamesHunt
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
Specs
Contributions
Natty
- Upstart
Added Debug stanza (not documented).
Added Manual stanza.
Added Override File support.
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):
- Byobu
Wrote /usr/lib/byobu/time_binary.
Wrote /usr/bin/byobu-ulevel.
Wrote /usr/bin/byobu-ugraph.
- Miscellaneous
Wrote Plymouth wiki 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.