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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/hardy-buglist.html kernel buglist] which I forward to the kernel team. The list is compiled of with 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 and awesome job of resolving the majority of bugs I give them.

• I'm also generating similar pages for bugs the QA team is 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/malone-buglist.html - malone bugs the QA team has reported or is interested in monitoring

• [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.

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

• Active participant 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

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