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About Me

Hi I work for Canonical as a Quality Assurance Engineer and my primary focus is on kernel bugs. I actively work on triaging new incoming bug reports against the actively developed kernel. I also follow up on new and existing bug reports made against previously released kernels. There still exists a lot of open kernel bugs and I'd like to see that number come down! I'm also involved in other general QA related areas such as performing [http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/pending-sru.html SRU verifications], participating in weekly [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay Bug Days], [http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/ ISO Testing], and working on developing projects which have been generated from [https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/developer-weather-report Ubuntu specs].

Contributions

• I generate a weekly [http://people.ubuntu.com/~ogasawara/intrepid-buglist.html kernel buglist] which I forward to the kernel team. The list is compiled of bugs I come across each week that should have enough information gathered for the kernel team to either quickly produce a fix or immediately start debugging. I've received excellent feedback and the kernel team has been doing an awesome job of resolving the majority of bugs I give them.

• The mobile team also asked if I could generate a list for them as well:

  • http://people.ubuntu.com/~ogasawara/mobile-buglist.html

• I'm also generating similar pages for bugs that both the QA team and Distro Team are interested in tracking:

  • http://people.ubuntu.com/~ogasawara/qa-hardy-list-archive/sort-by-package/current-buglist.html - bugs tagged 'qa-hardy-list'

  • http://people.ubuntu.com/~ogasawara/qa-hardy-list-archive/sort-by-package/desktop-buglist.html - bugs tagged 'qa-hardy-desktop'

  • http://people.ubuntu.com/~ogasawara/qa-hardy-list-archive/sort-by-package/platform-buglist.html - bugs tagged 'qa-hardy-platform'

  • http://people.ubuntu.com/~ogasawara/qa-hardy-list-archive/sort-by-package/server-buglist.html - bugs tagged 'qa-hardy-server'

  • http://people.ubuntu.com/~ogasawara/malone-buglist.html - malone bugs the QA team has reported or is interested in monitoring, tagged 'ubuntu-qa'

• [https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/developer-weather-report developer-weather-report] - the goal of this Ubuntu spec is to provide the Ubuntu release team a dashboard covering all the variables that go into determining whether Ubuntu is release ready - bug count, RC bug count, archive analysis reports, iso testing summaries, etc, linking to detailed data about each metric.

  • A prototype currently being used by the release team can be seen here: http://people.ubuntu.com/~ogasawara/weatherreport.html

• Active participant in weekly [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay Ubuntu Bug Days]

  • Organized [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20080306 Kernel Bug Day] and [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20080325 Ubiquity Bug Day]

• Participating in [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/5-A-Day 5-A-Day]

• [http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/ ISO Testing]

• Help performing [http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/pending-sru.html SRU verifications]

• Helped create and update several QA related wiki pages such as:

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/GitKernelBuild

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelOops

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Watches

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeamBugPolicies

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/KernelBugMigration

Interesting Stats

• I've commented on [https://bugs.launchpad.net/~leannogasawara/+commentedbugs 1000+] bug reports

• [https://launchpad.net/~leannogasawara 12,000+] Karma points

• ~30% of all Fix Released kernel bugs for Hardy had made the weekly [http://people.ubuntu.com/~ogasawara/hardy-buglist.html kernel buglist]

• http://people.ubuntu.com/~ogasawara/hardy-buglist.svg - Status of all Hardy kernel bugs which made the weekly buglist

Future Goals

• Bring the total number of open kernel bugs down
• Find more efficient and effective ways of triaging bugs
• Try to build more community support to help triage bugs

Testimonials

Leann is a quick learner and a fantastic bug triager/patch hunter. Big +1 from me. -- KeesCook (kees)