KateStewart
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:
- Freenode
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.
On the community side:
co-chair of the SPDX working group, sponsored by FOSSbazaar and the Linux Foundation as part of their open compliance program. 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 extends beyond what is called for in DEP-5.
- participant in project Harmony effort to standardize contributor agreements.
Trade Shows/Ubuntu/Linux Events
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 )