KernelUploadRightsApplication

I, Thibault Ferrante, apply for the Ubuntu Kernel Uploaders team membership, to get upload rights for the linux-* packages.

Who I am

My name is Thibault Ferrante, and I have been a member of the Ubuntu Kernel Team since June 2023.

I studied in France at ESEO and Ecole Centrale Nantes where I got two master's degree in Software development with a focus on embedded/real-time systems.

From there, I worked in the automotive world where I worked 8 years through companies of different scales before joining Canonical. During this time, I worked on ADAS systems, IOT car dongle, car charging stations, electric solar car. All these projects were using widely different boards/systems/stacks/tooling.

My Ubuntu story

I started using Ubuntu while I was in studying, discovering through the lens of Virtualbox. Quickly I began to use it as daily driver while still using windows in dual-boot for unsupported (proprietary) software. It's at this period I began to learn and appreciate the values behind by open-source software and start to really migrate towards only using Ubuntu. I have still this old Windows 7 partition in some HDD that I haven't booted in years.

Through the years, there was kernel oops and some funky issues, but I grown a better understanding of the system and being able to customize it to my preference was delightful. Furthermore this has been amplified when I started developing Linux platform support as part of the product to be delivered (charging station/infotainment system).

My involvement

Since I started, I worked quite a bit on cranking kernels with the stable team to deliver SRU releases. I'm also contributing/testing to enable specific hardware products. I also tries to contribute to tools in kteam-tools.

Summary

Sponsor

Count

Roxana Nicolescu

23

Khaled El Mously

9

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

9

Juerg Haefliger

3

Luke Nowakowski-Krijger

3

Tim Gardner

3

Stefan Bader

2

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo

1

Total

53

Date

Sponsor

Sponsoree

Package

Version

Distribution

2023-05-25 13:09

Juerg Haefliger

Thibault Ferrante

linux-kvm

5.19.0-1025.26

kinetic

2023-05-25 13:46

Juerg Haefliger

Thibault Ferrante

linux-meta-kvm

5.19.0.1025.22

kinetic

2023-05-25 13:51

Juerg Haefliger

Thibault Ferrante

linux-signed-kvm

5.19.0-1025.26

kinetic

2023-06-22 09:47

Luke Nowakowski-Krijger

Thibault Ferrante

linux-ibm

5.4.0-1052.57

focal

2023-06-22 09:51

Luke Nowakowski-Krijger

Thibault Ferrante

linux-meta-ibm

5.4.0.1052.78

focal

2023-06-22 09:51

Luke Nowakowski-Krijger

Thibault Ferrante

linux-signed-ibm

5.4.0-1052.57

focal

2023-07-12 15:11

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-hwe-5.15

5.15.0-78.85~20.04.1

focal

2023-07-12 16:05

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-restricted-modules-hwe-5.15

5.15.0-78.85~20.04.1

focal

2023-07-12 16:05

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-meta-hwe-5.15

5.15.0.78.85~20.04.38

focal

2023-07-12 16:05

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-signed-hwe-5.15

5.15.0-78.85~20.04.1

focal

2023-07-13 13:33

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15

5.15.0-78.85~20.04.1

focal

2023-07-13 14:00

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-signed-lowlatency-hwe-5.15

5.15.0-78.85~20.04.1

focal

2023-07-13 14:03

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-restricted-modules-lowlatency-hwe-5.15

5.15.0-78.85~20.04.1

focal

2023-07-13 14:05

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-meta-lowlatency-hwe-5.15

5.15.0.78.85~20.04.35

focal

2023-07-18 12:51

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-kvm

6.2.0-1010.10

lunar

2023-07-18 13:37

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-meta-kvm

6.2.0.1010.10

lunar

2023-07-18 13:38

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-signed-kvm

6.2.0-1010.10

lunar

2023-07-24 15:53

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-kvm

5.15.0-1039.44

jammy

2023-07-24 16:08

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-meta-kvm

5.15.0.1039.35

jammy

2023-07-24 16:08

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-signed-kvm

5.15.0-1039.44

jammy

2023-08-16 10:21

Khaled El Mously

Thibault Ferrante

linux-ibm

6.2.0-1008.8

lunar

2023-08-16 14:11

Khaled El Mously

Thibault Ferrante

linux-meta-ibm

6.2.0.1008.8

lunar

2023-08-16 14:11

Khaled El Mously

Thibault Ferrante

linux-signed-ibm

6.2.0-1008.8

lunar

2023-08-17 12:40

Khaled El Mously

Thibault Ferrante

linux-gkeop

5.15.0-1026.31

jammy

2023-08-17 13:08

Khaled El Mously

Thibault Ferrante

linux-signed-gkeop

5.15.0-1026.31

jammy

2023-08-17 13:08

Khaled El Mously

Thibault Ferrante

linux-meta-gkeop

5.15.0.1026.25

jammy

2023-08-24 14:41

Khaled El Mously

Thibault Ferrante

linux-gkeop-5.15

5.15.0-1026.31~20.04.1

focal

2023-08-24 15:13

Khaled El Mously

Thibault Ferrante

linux-meta-gkeop-5.15

5.15.0.1026.31~20.04.22

focal

2023-08-24 15:13

Khaled El Mously

Thibault Ferrante

linux-signed-gkeop-5.15

5.15.0-1026.31~20.04.1

focal

2023-08-28 18:37

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

Thibault Ferrante

linux-ibm

5.4.0-1056.61

focal

2023-08-28 18:50

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

Thibault Ferrante

linux-meta-ibm

5.4.0.1056.85

focal

2023-08-28 19:00

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

Thibault Ferrante

linux-signed-ibm

5.4.0-1056.61

focal

2023-09-07 09:44

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

Thibault Ferrante

linux-ibm

5.4.0-1057.62

focal

2023-09-07 10:20

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

Thibault Ferrante

linux-meta-ibm

5.4.0.1057.86

focal

2023-09-07 10:20

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

Thibault Ferrante

linux-signed-ibm

5.4.0-1057.62

focal

2023-09-07 11:41

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-kvm

5.4.0-1099.105

focal

2023-09-07 12:03

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-meta-kvm

5.4.0.1099.94

focal

2023-09-07 12:04

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-signed-kvm

5.4.0-1099.105

focal

2023-09-15 09:52

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

Thibault Ferrante

linux-ibm

5.4.0-1058.63

focal

2023-09-15 10:02

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

Thibault Ferrante

linux-meta-ibm

5.4.0.1058.87

focal

2023-09-15 10:02

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

Thibault Ferrante

linux-signed-ibm

5.4.0-1058.63

focal

2023-10-03 10:26

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-oracle-5.15

5.15.0-1044.50~20.04.1

focal

2023-10-03 10:26

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-signed-oracle-5.15

5.15.0-1044.50~20.04.1

focal

2023-10-03 10:26

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-meta-oracle-5.15

5.15.0.1044.50~20.04.1

focal

2023-10-03 10:27

Stefan Bader

Thibault Ferrante

linux-oracle

5.15.0-1044.50

jammy

2023-10-03 10:27

Stefan Bader

Thibault Ferrante

linux-signed-oracle

5.15.0-1044.50

jammy

2023-10-03 10:27

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo

Thibault Ferrante

linux-meta-oracle

5.15.0.1044.39

jammy

2023-10-06 14:18

Tim Gardner

Thibault Ferrante

linux-kvm

5.4.0-1101.107

focal

2023-10-06 14:59

Tim Gardner

Thibault Ferrante

linux-meta-kvm

5.4.0.1101.96

focal

2023-10-06 14:59

Tim Gardner

Thibault Ferrante

linux-signed-kvm

5.4.0-1101.107

focal

2023-10-11 13:30

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-kvm

5.4.0-1102.108

focal

2023-10-11 14:13

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-meta-kvm

5.4.0.1102.97

focal

2023-10-11 14:13

Roxana Nicolescu

Thibault Ferrante

linux-signed-kvm

5.4.0-1102.108

focal

Thanks @corytodd and UDD for the generation of these tables.

Things I could do better

Looking to get more used to cross debugging experience and better understanding of the building of Ubuntu image.

Plans for the future

Upstream more commits for IMX platforms and get better tooling along the way to do kernel work.


Comments

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Endorsements


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Roxana Nicolescu (roxanan)

General feedback

I reviewed a lot of kernels prepared by Thibault and everything was prepared with care and attention to detail. He also cranked a variety of kernels and encountered some corner cases, so I am confident he is already pretty experienced with it. He is also proactive in asking questions, helping people, and improving our tooling and documentation. I fully trust him with upload rights and give him my +1.

Areas of Improvement

Nothing I can think of, keep up the good work.


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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

General feedback

I've reviewed some linux-ibm kernels prepared by Thibault. They were all prepared with care and some small issues were always swiftly corrected. He asks the right questions when in doubt and also works on improving our documentation and tooling. For these reasons I trust him with upload rights and give him my endorsement and +1.


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=== General feedback ===
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