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Background

I've been using and deploying Linux since I was at University in the early 90's; started with Slackware, then Red Hat, then Fedora and then Ubuntu in the last couple of years.

Apache + JBoss on Red Hat Enterprise Linux was my first foray into deploying open-source instead of propriety software in an enterprise and I've not looked back; The rest of the propriety software environment quickly followed..... Nagios, Puppet, Solr, MySQL and more. I find that open-source is both more cost effective and more flexible than deploying propriety software.

Before that I was a Java Applications Developer working with early versions of Java Enterprise Edition on very expensive propriety middle-ware.

Contributions

Summary

• Automation of Ubuntu Server ISO and ec2 Testing

• Packaging of Jenkins for Ubuntu

• Ubuntu Server Team Bug Triage+SRU+Fixes+FFe
• Ubuntu Java library maintenance in-conjunction with Debian Java team.

Detail

Automated Testing

• ISO testing in-conjunction with Mathias Gug for Maverick; now in use for Natty and Lucid point releases. Framework has also been extended by the development team to encompass Desktop and Alternate ISO testing.
• ec2 testing: refactoring of existing script framework by Scott Moser into python library and scripts, integration into Jenkins for easy execution and test reporting.

Jenkins

• Packaging of Jenkins from source for Ubuntu (NOT in yet) alongside Natty release - all ~60 dependencies!

  • http://launchpad.net/~hudson-ubuntu

Bugs

• SRU's

  • mailman - http://pad.lv/659975

  • openldap -

    • http://pad.lv/666028

    • http://pad.lv/658227

    • http://pad.lv/783836

  • ntp - http://pad.lv/715152

  • tomcat6 - http://pad.lv/654549

  • awstats - http://pad.lv/707365

• FFE's

  • groovy (natty) - http://pad.lv/661230

• MIR's

  • jansi, hawtjni, jansi-native - http://pad.lv/676904

  • ant-contrib - http://pad.lv/783421

• Syncs and Merges

  • groovy - http://pad.lv/777103

  • tomcat6 - http://pad.lv/776558

  • jansi - http://pad.lv/776551

  • xom - http://pad.lv/776550

Java Library Maintenance

• Enablement of test suites
  • asm2
  • c3p0

Plans and Ideas for Ubuntu

More Automated Testing

• Complex deployment scenario testing for Ubuntu Server (maybe using ensemble):
  • DNS
  • Kerberos
  • LDAP

More Jenkins Plugins

• Build up of a community around the packaging of Jenkins + Plugins and get then into the Debian and Ubuntu archives.

More Java Enterprise Applications

• At least one full JEE Stack for Ubuntu
• Tomcat 7
• Better Hadoop support

Supporting packaging of Java libraries and applications

• Building up the Maven/Debian repository by ensuring Java libraries install Maven artefacts to /usr/share/java/maven-repo.
• Improving the maven-debian-helper toolset to automate package production further.
• Move Maven + helper packages to main to ensure Java delta with Debian is minimal.

IPv6

• This is going to be really important in the future; we need to make sure that Ubuntu is up to the challenge.