KernelUploadRightsApplication
I, Edward Stewart Hore, apply for the Ubuntu Kernel Uploaders team membership, to get upload rights for the linux-* packages.
Name
Edward Stewart Hore
Launchpad Page
Wiki Page
Who I am
My name is Edward Stewart Hore, and I go by Stewart. I have been a member of the Ubuntu Kernel Team since January 2025.
I graduated with a PhD in Computer Science and Mathematics in 2005. Before joining Canonical I worked as a software engineer in computer games, the Earth sciences, telco network engineering, and regulated software for medical and automotive devices. The regulated work in particular taught me the habits this role needs: careful review, reproducible builds, and a lot of respect for the cost of shipping a defect to someone who cannot easily roll back.
My Ubuntu story
I have run Ubuntu since 6.06 "Dapper Drake". It has been my development operating system for most of my career, and it is what I reach for whenever I have a server or a cloud instance to look after, both privately and professionally.
My involvement
I have contributed to SRU cycles since joining the kernel team, across linux-aws(-6.8), linux-gcp(-5.15/-6.8), linux-ibm-6.8, linux-oracle-6.8, linux-xilinx, linux-xilinx-zynqmp and linux-kvm, together with their meta, signed and restricted-modules companions, on focal, jammy and noble.
Beyond the regular cranks:
- I was the maintainer for the Xilinx kernels, linux-xilinx and
- linux-xilinx-zynqmp, from June 2025 to June 2026.
- I am currently working on the NXP 7.0 kernel. It is still in development
- and is not yet part of the SRU and SWM workflows, so it does not appear in the upload log below.
- I work on hardware enablement and backporting.
- I have found and fixed bugs in the kernel team's regression testing
- infrastructure, so that the results the rest of the team relies on are trustworthy.
- I have worked on the kernel snapcraft plugin, and fixed a number of bugs in
- the existing kernel snapcraft builds for the Xilinx kernels.
Upload rights would let me land these cycles without taking up a sponsor's time on every one, and would let me sponsor for others in turn, which is the part I am most looking forward to.
Sponsoring
Since joining Canonical in January 2025 I have had 94 package uploads sponsored, between 2025-02-20 and 2026-04-27, spanning linux-aws(-6.8), linux-gcp(-5.15/-6.8), linux-ibm-6.8, linux-oracle-6.8, linux-xilinx, linux-xilinx-zynqmp and linux-kvm, and their meta, signed and restricted-modules companions, across focal, jammy and noble.
Sponsors
Sponsor |
Count |
Bethany Jamison |
16 |
Juerg Haefliger |
12 |
Manuel Diewald |
12 |
Stefan Bader |
12 |
Jian Hui Lee |
10 |
Edoardo Canepa |
8 |
Wei-Lin Chang |
8 |
Mehmet Basaran |
6 |
Magali Lemes do Sacramento |
4 |
Hui Wang |
3 |
John Cabaj |
3 |
Total |
94 |
Full upload log
Date |
Sponsor |
Sponsoree |
Package |
Version |
Distribution |
2025-02-20 23:57 |
Bethany Jamison |
Stewart Hore |
linux-aws |
5.4.0-1141.151 |
focal |
2025-02-21 03:08 |
Bethany Jamison |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-aws |
5.4.0.1141.138 |
focal |
2025-02-21 03:08 |
Bethany Jamison |
Stewart Hore |
linux-signed-aws |
5.4.0-1141.151 |
focal |
2025-02-21 03:09 |
Bethany Jamison |
Stewart Hore |
linux-restricted-modules-aws |
5.4.0-1141.151 |
focal |
2025-03-13 03:53 |
Bethany Jamison |
Stewart Hore |
linux-aws |
5.4.0-1142.152 |
focal |
2025-03-13 03:56 |
Bethany Jamison |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-aws |
5.4.0.1142.139 |
focal |
2025-03-13 03:56 |
Bethany Jamison |
Stewart Hore |
linux-signed-aws |
5.4.0-1142.152 |
focal |
2025-03-13 03:57 |
Bethany Jamison |
Stewart Hore |
linux-restricted-modules-aws |
5.4.0-1142.152 |
focal |
2025-04-01 07:42 |
Bethany Jamison |
Stewart Hore |
linux-gcp-5.15 |
5.15.0-1081.90~20.04.1 |
focal |
2025-04-01 08:58 |
Bethany Jamison |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-gcp-5.15 |
5.15.0.1081.90~20.04.1 |
focal |
2025-04-01 08:58 |
Bethany Jamison |
Stewart Hore |
linux-signed-gcp-5.15 |
5.15.0-1081.90~20.04.1 |
focal |
2025-04-01 08:59 |
Bethany Jamison |
Stewart Hore |
linux-restricted-modules-gcp-5.15 |
5.15.0-1081.90~20.04.1 |
focal |
2025-04-29 06:55 |
Bethany Jamison |
Stewart Hore |
linux-gcp-6.8 |
6.8.0-1030.32~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-04-29 07:34 |
Bethany Jamison |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-gcp-6.8 |
6.8.0-1030.32~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-04-29 07:34 |
Bethany Jamison |
Stewart Hore |
linux-signed-gcp-6.8 |
6.8.0-1030.32~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-04-29 07:34 |
Bethany Jamison |
Stewart Hore |
linux-restricted-modules-gcp-6.8 |
6.8.0-1030.32~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-05-26 05:23 |
Stefan Bader |
Stewart Hore |
linux-ibm-6.8 |
6.8.0-1027.27~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-05-26 06:27 |
Stefan Bader |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-ibm-6.8 |
6.8.0-1027.27~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-05-26 06:28 |
Stefan Bader |
Stewart Hore |
linux-signed-ibm-6.8 |
6.8.0-1027.27~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-05-26 06:28 |
Stefan Bader |
Stewart Hore |
linux-restricted-modules-ibm-6.8 |
6.8.0-1027.27~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-06-30 01:16 |
Stefan Bader |
Stewart Hore |
linux-ibm-6.8 |
6.8.0-1028.28~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-06-30 02:51 |
Stefan Bader |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-ibm-6.8 |
6.8.0-1028.28~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-06-30 02:51 |
Stefan Bader |
Stewart Hore |
linux-signed-ibm-6.8 |
6.8.0-1028.28~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-06-30 02:51 |
Stefan Bader |
Stewart Hore |
linux-restricted-modules-ibm-6.8 |
6.8.0-1028.28~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-08-02 00:46 |
Manuel Diewald |
Stewart Hore |
linux-oracle-6.8 |
6.8.0-1031.32~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-08-02 01:52 |
Manuel Diewald |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-oracle-6.8 |
6.8.0-1031.32~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-08-02 01:52 |
Manuel Diewald |
Stewart Hore |
linux-signed-oracle-6.8 |
6.8.0-1031.32~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-08-02 01:52 |
Manuel Diewald |
Stewart Hore |
linux-restricted-modules-oracle-6.8 |
6.8.0-1031.32~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-09-24 04:05 |
Wei-Lin Chang |
Stewart Hore |
linux-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0-1057.61 |
jammy |
2025-09-24 04:40 |
Wei-Lin Chang |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0.1057.60 |
jammy |
2025-09-27 02:12 |
Wei-Lin Chang |
Stewart Hore |
linux-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0-1058.62 |
jammy |
2025-09-27 02:59 |
Wei-Lin Chang |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0.1058.61 |
jammy |
2025-09-27 08:00 |
Wei-Lin Chang |
Stewart Hore |
linux-xilinx |
6.8.0-1018.19 |
noble |
2025-09-27 08:29 |
Wei-Lin Chang |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-xilinx |
6.8.0.1018.19 |
noble |
2025-09-30 03:31 |
Magali Lemes do Sacramento |
Stewart Hore |
linux-oracle-6.8 |
6.8.0-1037.38~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-09-30 05:09 |
Magali Lemes do Sacramento |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-oracle-6.8 |
6.8.0-1037.38~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-09-30 05:10 |
Magali Lemes do Sacramento |
Stewart Hore |
linux-signed-oracle-6.8 |
6.8.0-1037.38~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-09-30 05:10 |
Magali Lemes do Sacramento |
Stewart Hore |
linux-restricted-modules-oracle-6.8 |
6.8.0-1037.38~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-10-03 01:20 |
Wei-Lin Chang |
Stewart Hore |
linux-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0-1059.63 |
jammy |
2025-10-03 03:48 |
Wei-Lin Chang |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0.1059.62 |
jammy |
2025-10-24 00:43 |
Juerg Haefliger |
Stewart Hore |
linux-oracle-6.8 |
6.8.0-1039.40~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-10-24 01:09 |
Juerg Haefliger |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-oracle-6.8 |
6.8.0-1039.40~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-10-24 01:10 |
Juerg Haefliger |
Stewart Hore |
linux-signed-oracle-6.8 |
6.8.0-1039.40~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-10-24 01:10 |
Juerg Haefliger |
Stewart Hore |
linux-restricted-modules-oracle-6.8 |
6.8.0-1039.40~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-11-11 13:28 |
Manuel Diewald |
Stewart Hore |
linux-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0-1060.64 |
jammy |
2025-11-11 13:28 |
Manuel Diewald |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0.1060.63 |
jammy |
2025-11-18 07:45 |
Edoardo Canepa |
Stewart Hore |
linux-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0-1061.65 |
jammy |
2025-11-18 07:45 |
Edoardo Canepa |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0.1061.64 |
jammy |
2025-11-20 00:05 |
Edoardo Canepa |
Stewart Hore |
linux-xilinx |
6.8.0-1020.21 |
noble |
2025-11-20 00:05 |
Edoardo Canepa |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-xilinx |
6.8.0.1020.21 |
noble |
2025-11-24 07:50 |
Juerg Haefliger |
Stewart Hore |
linux-ibm-6.8 |
6.8.0-1041.41~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-11-24 07:50 |
Juerg Haefliger |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-ibm-6.8 |
6.8.0-1041.41~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-11-24 07:50 |
Juerg Haefliger |
Stewart Hore |
linux-signed-ibm-6.8 |
6.8.0-1041.41~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-11-24 07:50 |
Juerg Haefliger |
Stewart Hore |
linux-restricted-modules-ibm-6.8 |
6.8.0-1041.41~22.04.1+1 |
jammy |
2025-11-25 12:44 |
Manuel Diewald |
Stewart Hore |
linux-xilinx |
6.8.0-1019.20 |
noble |
2025-11-25 12:44 |
Manuel Diewald |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-xilinx |
6.8.0.1019.20 |
noble |
2025-11-27 01:12 |
Manuel Diewald |
Stewart Hore |
linux-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0-1062.66 |
jammy |
2025-11-27 01:26 |
Manuel Diewald |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0.1062.65 |
jammy |
2025-12-10 11:19 |
Juerg Haefliger |
Stewart Hore |
linux-ibm-6.8 |
6.8.0-1042.42~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-12-10 11:19 |
Juerg Haefliger |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-ibm-6.8 |
6.8.0-1042.42~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-12-10 11:19 |
Juerg Haefliger |
Stewart Hore |
linux-signed-ibm-6.8 |
6.8.0-1042.42~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-12-10 11:19 |
Juerg Haefliger |
Stewart Hore |
linux-restricted-modules-ibm-6.8 |
6.8.0-1042.42~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-12-15 11:27 |
Manuel Diewald |
Stewart Hore |
linux-xilinx |
6.8.0-1021.22 |
noble |
2025-12-15 11:27 |
Manuel Diewald |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-xilinx |
6.8.0.1021.22 |
noble |
2026-02-07 10:27 |
Mehmet Basaran |
Stewart Hore |
linux-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0-1064.68 |
jammy |
2026-02-07 10:55 |
Mehmet Basaran |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0.1064.67 |
jammy |
2026-02-07 13:04 |
Mehmet Basaran |
Stewart Hore |
linux-xilinx |
6.8.0-1023.24 |
noble |
2026-02-07 14:04 |
Mehmet Basaran |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-xilinx |
6.8.0.1023.24 |
noble |
2026-02-11 04:42 |
Mehmet Basaran |
Stewart Hore |
linux-xilinx |
6.8.0-1024.25 |
noble |
2026-02-11 05:00 |
Mehmet Basaran |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-xilinx |
6.8.0.1024.25 |
noble |
2026-02-16 22:45 |
John Cabaj |
Stewart Hore |
linux-kvm |
5.15.0-1094.99 |
jammy |
2026-02-16 23:03 |
John Cabaj |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-kvm |
5.15.0.1094.90 |
jammy |
2026-02-16 23:04 |
John Cabaj |
Stewart Hore |
linux-signed-kvm |
5.15.0-1094.99 |
jammy |
2026-02-20 07:12 |
Edoardo Canepa |
Stewart Hore |
linux-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0-1066.70 |
jammy |
2026-02-20 08:13 |
Edoardo Canepa |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0.1066.69 |
jammy |
2026-02-23 02:43 |
Edoardo Canepa |
Stewart Hore |
linux-xilinx |
6.8.0-1025.26 |
noble |
2026-02-23 03:30 |
Edoardo Canepa |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-xilinx |
6.8.0.1025.26 |
noble |
2026-03-24 01:33 |
Hui Wang |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-kvm |
5.15.0.1096.92 |
jammy |
2026-03-24 01:33 |
Hui Wang |
Stewart Hore |
linux-signed-kvm |
5.15.0-1096.101 |
jammy |
2026-04-04 23:16 |
Jian Hui Lee |
Stewart Hore |
linux-aws-6.8 |
6.8.0-1052.55~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2026-04-05 00:11 |
Jian Hui Lee |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-aws-6.8 |
6.8.0-1052.55~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2026-04-05 00:12 |
Jian Hui Lee |
Stewart Hore |
linux-signed-aws-6.8 |
6.8.0-1052.55~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2026-04-05 00:12 |
Jian Hui Lee |
Stewart Hore |
linux-restricted-modules-aws-6.8 |
6.8.0-1052.55~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2026-04-08 01:21 |
Hui Wang |
Stewart Hore |
linux-kvm |
5.15.0-1096.101 |
jammy |
2026-04-13 00:29 |
Stefan Bader |
Stewart Hore |
linux-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0-1069.73 |
jammy |
2026-04-13 07:53 |
Stefan Bader |
Stewart Hore |
linux-xilinx |
6.8.0-1028.29 |
noble |
2026-04-13 08:19 |
Stefan Bader |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-xilinx |
6.8.0.1028.29 |
noble |
2026-04-13 22:30 |
Stefan Bader |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0.1069.72 |
jammy |
2026-04-20 02:26 |
Jian Hui Lee |
Stewart Hore |
linux-aws-6.8 |
6.8.0-1053.56~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2026-04-20 03:00 |
Jian Hui Lee |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-aws-6.8 |
6.8.0-1053.56~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2026-04-20 03:00 |
Jian Hui Lee |
Stewart Hore |
linux-signed-aws-6.8 |
6.8.0-1053.56~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2026-04-27 05:32 |
Jian Hui Lee |
Stewart Hore |
linux-kvm |
5.15.0-1099.104 |
jammy |
2026-04-27 06:07 |
Jian Hui Lee |
Stewart Hore |
linux-meta-kvm |
5.15.0.1099.95 |
jammy |
2026-04-27 06:07 |
Jian Hui Lee |
Stewart Hore |
linux-signed-kvm |
5.15.0-1099.104 |
jammy |
Uploads prepared and signed by me
I prepared and signed the uploads below myself, so Launchpad records them against my own name rather than a sponsor's. They are not sponsored uploads, and they are excluded from the counts above; I list them separately for completeness. They include the Xilinx kernels, for which I was the maintainer.
Date |
Package |
Version |
Distribution |
2025-08-21 05:07 |
linux-oracle-6.8 |
6.8.0-1033.34~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-08-21 05:48 |
linux-meta-oracle-6.8 |
6.8.0-1033.34~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-08-21 05:48 |
linux-signed-oracle-6.8 |
6.8.0-1033.34~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-08-21 05:49 |
linux-restricted-modules-oracle-6.8 |
6.8.0-1033.34~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-10-13 02:26 |
linux-oracle-6.8 |
6.8.0-1038.39~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-10-13 03:08 |
linux-meta-oracle-6.8 |
6.8.0-1038.39~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-10-13 03:09 |
linux-signed-oracle-6.8 |
6.8.0-1038.39~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2025-10-13 03:09 |
linux-restricted-modules-oracle-6.8 |
6.8.0-1038.39~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2026-01-30 06:11 |
linux-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0-1063.67 |
jammy |
2026-01-30 06:41 |
linux-meta-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0.1063.66 |
jammy |
2026-02-09 09:21 |
linux-xilinx |
6.8.0-1022.23 |
noble |
2026-02-09 09:21 |
linux-meta-xilinx |
6.8.0.1022.23 |
noble |
2026-02-09 09:22 |
linux-ibm-6.8 |
6.8.0-1043.43~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2026-02-09 09:22 |
linux-meta-ibm-6.8 |
6.8.0-1043.43~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2026-02-09 09:22 |
linux-signed-ibm-6.8 |
6.8.0-1043.43~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2026-02-09 09:22 |
linux-restricted-modules-ibm-6.8 |
6.8.0-1043.43~22.04.1 |
jammy |
2026-02-11 01:53 |
linux-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0-1065.69 |
jammy |
2026-02-11 03:05 |
linux-meta-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0.1065.68 |
jammy |
2026-04-01 04:14 |
linux-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0-1068.72 |
jammy |
2026-04-01 04:30 |
linux-meta-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0.1068.71 |
jammy |
2026-04-27 12:25 |
linux-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0-1070.74 |
jammy |
2026-04-27 12:45 |
linux-meta-xilinx-zynqmp |
5.15.0.1070.73 |
jammy |
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