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As the Ubuntu Release Manager, I work with the release team to manage the Ubuntu development and long term support releases. As the Ubuntu Release Manager, I work with the release team to manage the Ubuntu development and long term support releases. Some of the areas I'm responsible for are:
 * holding weekly release meetings to get status across teams and highlight issues for the approaching milestones
 * coordinate pulling together the release notes for each of the milestones and final releases
 * review key open bugs to determine impact to release and specific milestones
 * work with release team to update and maintain release process pages
 * work with release team to manage image building and publishing
 * host sessions at UDS/rally's to deal with release issues ( post-release process analysis, licensing and copyrights, metric improvements, etc.)
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'''TO DO: add more here - Release meetings, Release Notes, Release/Milestone Bug Review, process pages, 3 UDS sessions, Licensing and copyright ''' Recent impacts:
 * worked with launchpad team to get o-series and p-series opened up for targeting future releases bugs/features to enable better planning
 * started bi-weekly SRU and LTS release meetings to get cross functional discussion as work out bi-weekly kernel SRU process intersecting with development release.
 * reworked release notes framework for 10.10, and technical overview notes for milestone releases.
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'''TO DO: SPDX - co-chair, technical lead, www.spdx.org ''' In addition, I am a co-chair of the SPDX working group, sponsored by FOSSbazaar and the Linux Foundation (www.spdx.org). The purpose of this group is to come up with a standard way to exchange copyright and licensing information that can be shared among software supply chain providers. Some of this has been modeled after the DEP-5 approach, but is looking to extend it to be more rigorous for commercial purposes.

Hello! I am Kate Stewart, and I work as the Ubuntu Release Manager for Canonical.

Contact Details

  • IRC: skaet (irc.freenode.net)

  • Email: kate(at)canonical(dot)com

  • Jabber: skaet

Also see my Launchpad Profile.

Where to find me

Ubuntu Mailing Lists:

  • ubuntu-devel
  • ubuntu-devel-announce
  • ubuntu-devel-discuss
  • ubuntu-announce
  • ubuntu-release

Upstream Mailing Lists:

  • spdx
  • spdx-tech

IRC:

Contributions

As the Ubuntu Release Manager, I work with the release team to manage the Ubuntu development and long term support releases. Some of the areas I'm responsible for are:

  • holding weekly release meetings to get status across teams and highlight issues for the approaching milestones
  • coordinate pulling together the release notes for each of the milestones and final releases
  • review key open bugs to determine impact to release and specific milestones
  • work with release team to update and maintain release process pages
  • work with release team to manage image building and publishing
  • host sessions at UDS/rally's to deal with release issues ( post-release process analysis, licensing and copyrights, metric improvements, etc.)

Recent impacts:

  • worked with launchpad team to get o-series and p-series opened up for targeting future releases bugs/features to enable better planning
  • started bi-weekly SRU and LTS release meetings to get cross functional discussion as work out bi-weekly kernel SRU process intersecting with development release.
  • reworked release notes framework for 10.10, and technical overview notes for milestone releases.

In addition, I am a co-chair of the SPDX working group, sponsored by FOSSbazaar and the Linux Foundation (www.spdx.org). The purpose of this group is to come up with a standard way to exchange copyright and licensing information that can be shared among software supply chain providers. Some of this has been modeled after the DEP-5 approach, but is looking to extend it to be more rigorous for commercial purposes.

Trade Shows/Ubuntu/Linux Events

TO DO: Add Links

I spoke at the following events in 2010:

  • LCA business track (January)
  • Invited talk at Linux Collaboration Summit and 1/2 day work session on SPDX (April)
  • Linux Conference 2010 (August)
  • Panel participant at ACI Software Licensing (September)
  • Linux Plumbers- Licensing BOF (November), and was on program committee.

Planned Speaking Events for 2011

  • LCA business track (January)
  • Linux Collaboration Summit ( SPDX working session )

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