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|| ACPI, power management || Matthew Garrett (mjg59), Stefan Bader (smb) || || ACPI, power management || Andy Whitcroft (apw), Stefan Bader (smb) ||
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|| Audio (alsa,PulseAudio) || Luke Yelavich (TheMuso) ||
|| Build daemons || Adam Conrad (infinity) , La``Mont Jones (lamont) ||
|| Cluster tools || ||
|| Compiz || Michael Vogt (mvo), Travis Watkins (Amaranth) ||
|| Build infrastructure || Adam Conrad (infinity) , La``Mont Jones (lamont) ||
|| Cluster tools || Chuck Short (zul) ||
|| Compiz || Rick Spencer (rickspencer3), Travis Watkins (Amaranth) ||
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|| Edubuntu || Oliver Grawert (ogra) ||
|| Encrypted file systems || Martin Pitt (pitti), Reinhard Tartler (siretart), Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) ||
|| Germinate, seeds || Colin Watson (cjwatson) ||
|| GNOME desktop || Sebastien Bacher (seb128), Loic Minier (lool), Ted Gould, many others ||
|| Encrypted file systems || Martin Pitt (pitti), Reinhard Tartler (siretart), Dustin Kirkland (kirkland), Tim Gardner (rtg) ||
|| Germinate, seeds || Colin Watson (cjwatson), Robbie Williamson (robbiew) ||
|| GNOME desktop || Sebastien Bacher (seb128), Pedro Villavicencio (pedro), Ted Gould, many others ||
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|| Java || Matthias Klose (doko) || || Java || Matthias Klose (doko), Thierry Carrez (Koon) ||
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|| KVM || Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) ||
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|| MID || Loïc Minier(lool), David Mandala (davidm) ||
|| Mobile || Loïc Minier(lool), David Mandala (davidm) ||
|| MID Edition || Loïc Minier(lool), David Mandala (davidm) ||
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|| Netbook Remix || Loic Minier (lool) ||
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|| Release management || Steve Langasek (slangasek) || || Release management || Steve Langasek (slangasek), Robbie Williamson (robbiew) ||
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|| Sound || Daniel T. Chen (crimsun) , Martin Pitt (pitti), Luke Yelavich (TheMuso) || || Sound (ALSA, PulseAudio) || Daniel T. Chen (crimsun) , Martin Pitt (pitti), Luke Yelavich (TheMuso) ||
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|| Ubuntu Studio || Cory Kontros (_MMA_) ||
|| udev || Scott James Remnant (Keybuk) ||
|| Ubuntu Studio || Cory Kontros (_MMA_), Luke Yelavich (TheMuso) ||
|| udev || Scott James Remnant (Keybuk), Tim Gardner (rtg) ||
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|| USplash || Matthew Garrett (mjg59), Kees Cook (kees) || || usb-creator || Evan Dandrea (evand) ||
|| USplash || Rick Spencer (rickspencer3), Kees Cook (kees) ||
|| Virtualization (KVM, Xen, libvirt, ...) || Soren Hansen (soren) ||

information_little.png This page is part of the Bug Squad’s KnowledgeBase - pages with information about how to triage bugs.

General advice

For those new to Ubuntu development, it can be difficult to find out who is responsible for particular components. Often, it is sufficient to just file a bug and trust Launchpad to deliver the information to the right people for you. However, it can be useful to talk to people informally first.

Many Ubuntu packages do not have maintainers in Ubuntu as such. Since we inherit many packages from Debian unchanged, the responsible person is often the corresponding Debian maintainer. When there is a responsible person in Ubuntu, sometimes the Maintainer field will tell you. For example:

$ apt-cache show upstart | grep ^Maintainer:
Maintainer: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>

However, sometimes this will just be a generic mailing list. For example:

$ apt-cache show hal | grep ^Maintainer:
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>

You can look for consistent contributors in the changelog (/usr/share/doc/PACKAGE/changelog.Debian.gz, or /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE/changelog.gz for native packages). Remember that the last uploader may just have been making a "drive-by" fix and not have a significant ongoing interest in or knowledge of the package.

The list of Launchpad bug contacts for the package (which can be found at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/PACKAGE) may be helpful. However, it may also contain non-developers who registered an interest in bugs filed on the package but do not contribute to it.

Specific responsibilities

Where general techniques do not help, the following list may do. This is not a canonical list of maintainers by any stretch of the imagination, but it may be a useful guideline. Please help to keep this list up to date! Please do not be offended if your name has been omitted, but instead add it where appropriate.

Component

Developer(s) (ircnick)

Accessibility

Henrik Nilsen Omma (heno), Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

ACPI, power management

Andy Whitcroft (apw), Stefan Bader (smb)

apport

Martin Pitt (pitti)

APT, Synaptic, update-manager, etc.

Michael Vogt (mvo)

ARM

Loïc Minier (lool), Oliver Grawert (ogra), David Mandala (davidm), Amit Kucheria (amitk)

Artwork

Ken Wimer (kwwii)

Build infrastructure

Adam Conrad (infinity) , LaMont Jones (lamont)

Cluster tools

Chuck Short (zul)

Compiz

Rick Spencer (rickspencer3), Travis Watkins (Amaranth)

DMRaid

Luke Yelvich (TheMuso)

Documentation (includes ubuntu-docs, gnome-user-docs)

DocumentationTeam/Contact or contact MatthewEast (mdke)

Encrypted file systems

Martin Pitt (pitti), Reinhard Tartler (siretart), Dustin Kirkland (kirkland), Tim Gardner (rtg)

Germinate, seeds

Colin Watson (cjwatson), Robbie Williamson (robbiew)

GNOME desktop

Sebastien Bacher (seb128), Pedro Villavicencio (pedro), Ted Gould, many others

HAL/PolicyKit/Mounting

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Installer (debian-installer, ubiquity, oem-config)

Colin Watson (cjwatson), Evan Dandrea (evand)

Internationalisation (fonts, input methods, etc.)

Arne Götje (ArneGoetje)

Java

Matthias Klose (doko), Thierry Carrez (Koon)

Jockey (formerly known as Restricted Manager)

Martin Pitt (pitti)

KDE desktop

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell), Sarah Hobbs (Hobbsee)

KVM

Dustin Kirkland (kirkland)

Language packs

Martin Pitt (pitti), Arne Götje (ArneGoetje)

Linux kernel

Pete Graner (pgraner), Tim Gardner (rtg)

MID Edition

Loïc Minier(lool), David Mandala (davidm)

Mozilla (Firefox, Thunderbird)

Alexander Sack (asac), Fabien Tassin (Ubulette)

MythTV

Mario Limonciello (mario_limonciell)

Netbook Remix

Loic Minier (lool)

NetworkManager

Alexander Sack (asac), Reinhard Tartler (siretart)

OpenOffice.org

Chris Cheney (calc)

Printing

Till Kamppeter, Martin Pitt (pitti)

Python

Matthias Klose (doko)

Release management

Steve Langasek (slangasek), Robbie Williamson (robbiew)

Security

Kees Cook (kees), Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)

Server

Rick Clark (dendrobates)

Sound (ALSA, PulseAudio)

Daniel T. Chen (crimsun) , Martin Pitt (pitti), Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

Toolchain (GCC, glibc, etc.)

Matthias Klose (doko)

Translation

<ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com> (ubuntu and canonical addresses whitelisted)

Ubuntu Studio

Cory Kontros (_MMA_), Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

udev

Scott James Remnant (Keybuk), Tim Gardner (rtg)

Upstart

Scott James Remnant (Keybuk)

usb-creator

Evan Dandrea (evand)

USplash

Rick Spencer (rickspencer3), Kees Cook (kees)

Virtualization (KVM, Xen, libvirt, ...)

Soren Hansen (soren)

X.org

Bryce Harrington (bryce), Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)

Xubuntu

Cody Somerville, Lionel de Folgoc (Xfce4 packages)


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