I, Steven Beattie, apply for core-dev.

Who I am

I live in Portland, Oregon, and am currently employed by Canonical Ltd. as an Ubuntu Security Engineer, starting in August, 2010. Prior to that, I was also employed by Canonical Ltd. as an Ubuntu QA Stable Release Engineer beginning in May 2008. My LinkedIn profile touches on my work history before that.

I am also a core developer and release manager for the AppArmor Project.

My Ubuntu story

Tell us how and when you got involved, what you liked working on and what you could probably do better.

My involvement

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

Areas of work

Let us know what you worked on, with which development teams / developers you cooperated and how it worked out.

USN security updates

• USN 1079-1 USN 1079-2 USN 1079-3

  • openjdk-6: 6b20-1.9.7-0ubuntu1 (maverick), 6b20-1.9.7-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 (lucid), 6b20-1.9.7-0ubuntu1~9.10.1 (karmic)

  • openjdk-6b18: 6b18-1.8.7-0ubuntu2.1 (maverick), 6b18-1.8.7-0ubuntu1~10.04.2 (lucid), 6b18-1.8.7-0ubuntu1~9.10.1 (karmic)

• USN 1088-1

  • krb5: 1.8.1+dfsg-5ubuntu0.6 (maverick), 1.8.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.8 (lucid), 1.7dfsg~beta3-1ubuntu0.12 (karmic)

• USN 1078-1

  • logwatch: 7.3.6.cvs20090906-1ubuntu3.1 (maverick), 7.3.6.cvs20090906-1ubuntu2.1 (lucid), 7.3.6.cvs20090906-1ubuntu1.1 (karmic), 7.3.6-1ubuntu1.1 (hardy)

• USN 1064-1

  • openssl: 0.9.8o-1ubuntu4.4 (maverick), 0.9.8k-7ubuntu8.6 (lucid)

• USN 1062-1

  • krb5: 1.8.1+dfsg-5ubuntu0.4 (maverick), 1.8.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.6 (lucid), 1.7dfsg~beta3-1ubuntu0.9 (karmic), 1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2ubuntu1.8 (hardy)

• USN 1058-1

  • postrgesql: 8.4.7-0ubuntu0.10.10 (maverick), 8.4.7-0ubuntu0.10.04 (lucid), 8.4.7-0ubuntu0.9.10 (karmic), 8.3.14-0ubuntu8.04 (hardy), 8.1.23-0ubuntu0.6.06.1 (dapper)

• USN 1055-1

  • openjdk-6: 6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1 (maverick), 6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 (lucid), 6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1~9.10.1 (karmic)

  • openjdk-6b18: 6b18-1.8.5-0ubuntu1 (maverick), 6b18-1.8.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 (lucid), 6b18-1.8.5-0ubuntu1~9.10.1 (karmic)

• USN 1052-1

  • openjdk-6: 6b20-1.9.4-0ubuntu1 (maverick), 6b20-1.9.4-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 (lucid), 6b20-1.9.4-0ubuntu1~9.10.1 (karmic)

  • openjdk-6b18: 6b18-1.8.4-0ubuntu1 (maverick), 6b18-1.8.4-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 (lucid), 6b18-1.8.4-0ubuntu1~9.10.1 (karmic)

• USN 1043-1

  • lcms: 1.18.dfsg-1ubuntu2.10.10.1 (maverick), 1.18.dfsg-1ubuntu2.10.04.1 (lucid), 1.18.dfsg-1ubuntu1.1 (karmic), 1.16-7ubuntu1.3 (hardy)

• USN 1042-2 to fix regression introduced by USN 1042-1

  • php5: 5.3.3-1ubuntu9.3 (maverick), 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.7 (lucid), 5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6.7 (karmic), 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.14 (hardy), 5.1.2-1ubuntu3.21 (dapper)

• USN 1042-1

  • php5: 5.3.3-1ubuntu9.2 (maverick), 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.6 (lucid), 5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6.6 (karmic), 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.13 (hardy), 5.1.2-1ubuntu3.20 (dapper)

• USN 1031-1

  • clamav: 0.96.3+dfsg-2ubuntu1.2 (maverick), 0.96.3+dfsg-2ubuntu1.0.10.04.2 (lucid), bug 673654

• USN 1029-1

  • openssl: 0.9.8o-1ubuntu4.3 (maverick), 0.9.8k-7ubuntu8.5 (lucid), 0.9.8g-16ubuntu3.5 (karmic), 0.9.8g-4ubuntu3.13 (hardy), 0.9.8a-7ubuntu0.14 (dapper)

• USN 1018-1

  • openssl: 0.9.8o-1ubuntu4.2 (maverick), 0.9.8k-7ubuntu8.4 (lucid), 0.9.8g-16ubuntu3.4 (karmic), 0.9.8g-4ubuntu3.12 (hardy)

• USN 1010-1

  • openjdk-6: 6b20-1.9.1-1ubuntu3 (maverick), 6b18-1.8.2-4ubuntu2 (lucid), 6b18-1.8.2-4ubuntu1~9.10.1 (karmic), 6b18-1.8.2-4ubuntu1~8.04.1 (hardy)

  • openjdk-6b18: 6b18-1.8.2-4ubuntu1 (maverick)

• USN 991-1

  • quassel: 0.6.1-0ubuntu1.1 (lucid), 0.5.0-0ubuntu1.2 (karmic), 0.4.1-0ubuntu3.1 (jaunty)

• USN 979-1

  • okular: 4:4.4.2-0ubuntu1.1 (lucid), 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu1.1 (karmic), 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu2.1 (jaunty)

• USN 965-1

  • openldap: 2.4.21-0ubuntu5.2 (lucid), 2.4.18-0ubuntu1.1 (karmic), 2.4.15-1ubuntu3.1 (jaunty), 2.4.9-0ubuntu0.8.04.4 (hardy), 2.2.26-5ubuntu2.10 (dapper)

• USN 967-1

  • w3m: 0.5.2-2.1ubuntu1.1 (lucid), 0.5.2-2ubuntu1.1 (karmic), 0.5.2-2ubuntu0.1 (jaunty), 0.5.1-5.1ubuntu1.1 (hardy), 0.5.1-4ubuntu2.6.06.1 (dapper)

Packages I've sponsored as part of security team duties

• loggerhead: 1.17+bzr424-1ubuntu1.1 (maverick), 1.17+bzr400-1ubuntu0.1 (lucid), 1.17-0ubuntu1.1 (karmic), 740142

• dtc: 0.30.18-1ubuntu1 (maverick), 0.30.10-1ubuntu1 (lucid), 0.25.3-2ubuntu1.1 (hardy), bug 729700

• gitolite: 1.5.4-1ubuntu0.1 (maverick)

• libapache2-mod-fcgid: 1:2.3.5-2ubuntu0.1 (maverick), 1:2.3.4-2ubuntu0.2 (lucid), 1:2.2-1ubuntu0.9.10.1 (karmic), 1:2.2-1ubuntu0.8.04.1 (hardy), bug 698060

• systemtap: 1.3-1ubuntu0.1 (maverick), 677226 (I ended up improving the submitted patch to match upstream's intent, which the Debian maintainer incorporated into their packaging)

• proftpd-dfsg: 1.3.2e-4ubuntu0.1 (maverick), 1.3.2c-1ubuntu0.1 (lucid), bug 674798

• phpmyadmin: 4:3.3.7-2build0.10.10.1 (maverick), bug 684865 (security fake-sync from debian)

Non-USN security updates

• git, git-core: 1:1.7.1-1.1ubuntu0.1 (maverick), 1:1.7.0.4-1ubuntu0.2 (lucid), 1:1.6.3.3-2ubuntu0.1 (karmic)

Other miscellaneous things

I gave an Ubuntu Developer Week talk on writing testcases for the QA Regression Testing tree.

I also gave an Open Week talk on verifying SRUs.

Things I could do better

Plans for the future

General

What I like least in Ubuntu

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=== Areas of Improvement ===

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