DeveloperResponsibilities

Differences between revisions 45 and 46
Revision 45 as of 2010-06-04 19:38:43
Size: 8656
Editor: pool-74-107-147-166
Comment:
Revision 46 as of 2010-07-21 19:28:03
Size: 8506
Editor: 88
Comment: update for pitti
Deletions are marked like this. Additions are marked like this.
Line 39: Line 39:
|| GNOME desktop || [[https://launchpad.net/~seb128|Sebastien Bacher]] (seb128), [[https://launchpad.net/~pvillavi|Pedro Villavicencio]] (pedro), [[https://launchpad.net/~ted-gould|Ted Gould]], many others ||
|| HAL/
Policy``Kit/Mounting || [[https://launchpad.net/~pitti|Martin Pitt]] (pitti) ||
|| GNOME desktop || [[https://launchpad.net/~seb128|Sebastien Bacher]] (seb128), [[https://launchpad.net/~pvillavi|Pedro Villavicencio]] (pedro), [[https://launchpad.net/~pitti|Martin Pitt]] (pitti), many others ||
|| udisks/upower/polkit/Mountin
g || [[https://launchpad.net/~pitti|Martin Pitt]] (pitti) ||
Line 44: Line 44:
|| Jockey (formerly known as Restricted Manager) || [[https://launchpad.net/~pitti|Martin Pitt]] (pitti) || || Jockey || [[https://launchpad.net/~pitti|Martin Pitt]] (pitti) ||
Line 55: Line 55:
|| Printing || [[https://launchpad.net/~till-kamppeter|Till Kamppeter]] (tkamppeter), [[https://launchpad.net/~pitti|Martin Pitt]] (pitti) || || Printing || [[https://launchpad.net/~till-kamppeter|Till Kamppeter]] (tkamppeter) ||
Line 57: Line 57:
|| Release management || [[https://launchpad.net/~vorlon|Steve Langasek]] (slangasek), [[https://launchpad.net/~robbie.w|Robbie Williamson]] (robbiew) || || Release management || [[https://launchpad.net/~vorlon|Steve Langasek]] (slangasek), [[https://launchpad.net/~robbie.w|Robbie Williamson]] (robbiew), [[https://launchpad.net/~pitti|Martin Pitt]] (pitti) ||
Line 61: Line 61:
|| Sound (ALSA, PulseAudio) || [[https://launchpad.net/~crimsun|Daniel T. Chen]] (crimsun) , [[https://launchpad.net/~pitti|Martin Pitt]] (pitti), [[https://launchpad.net/~themuso|Luke Yelavich]] (The''''''Muso) || || Sound (ALSA, PulseAudio) || [[https://launchpad.net/~crimsun|Daniel T. Chen]] (crimsun), [[https://launchpad.net/~themuso|Luke Yelavich]] (The''''''Muso) ||
Line 66: Line 66:
|| udev || [[https://launchpad.net/~scott|Scott James Remnant]] (Keybuk), [[https://launchpad.net/~timg-tpi|Tim Gardner]] (rtg) || || udev || [[https://launchpad.net/~scott|Scott James Remnant]] (Keybuk), [[https://launchpad.net/~timg-tpi|Tim Gardner]] (rtg), [[https://launchpad.net/~pitti|Martin Pitt]] (pitti) ||
Line 69: Line 69:
|| USplash || [[https://launchpad.net/~pitti|Martin Pitt]] (pitti), [[https://launchpad.net/~kees|Kees Cook]] (kees) ||

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)

ARM

Loic Minier (lool), Oliver Grawert (ogra), Amit Kucheria (amitk)

Artwork

Ken Wimer (kwwii)

Bug management tools

Brian Murray (bdmurray)

Build infrastructure

Adam Conrad(infinity) , LaMont Jones (lamont)

Checkbox

David Murphy (schwuk), Marc Tardif (cr3)

Cluster tools

Chuck Short (zul)

Compiz

Michael Vogt (mvo), Travis Watkins (Amaranth)

Desktop testing

Ara Pulido (ara)

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), Martin Pitt (pitti), many others

udisks/upower/polkit/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 (ttx)

Jockey

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)

Mozilla (Firefox, Thunderbird)

Alexander Sack (asac), Fabien Tassin (Ubulette), Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)

MySQL

Mathias Gug (mathiaz)

MythTV

Mario Limonciello (superm1)

NetworkManager

Alexander Sack (asac), Reinhard Tartler (siretart)

OpenOffice.org

Chris Cheney (calc)

Packaging tools (APT, Synaptic, update-manager, etc.)

Michael Vogt (mvo)

Printing

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

Python

Matthias Klose (doko)

Release management

Steve Langasek (slangasek), Robbie Williamson (robbiew), Martin Pitt (pitti)

Samba

Mathias Gug (mathiaz)

Security

Please see SecurityTeam/Contacts

Server

Rick Clark (dendrobates)

Sound (ALSA, PulseAudio)

Daniel T. Chen (crimsun), Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

SRU QA and regression mgmt.

Steve Beattie (sbeattie)

Toolchain (GCC, glibc, etc.)

Matthias Klose (doko)

Translations

David Planella (dpm), <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), Martin Pitt (pitti)

Upstart

Scott James Remnant (Keybuk)

usb-creator

Evan Dandrea (evand)

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

Soren Hansen (soren)

X.org

RAOF, Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)

Xubuntu

Cody Somerville, Lionel de Folgoc (Xfce4 packages)

Fallback

If there is no contact listed above, try one of these general contacts:

Desktop

Rick Spencer (rickspencer3)

Server

Jos Boumans (jib)

Mobile

David Mandala (davidm)

Kernel

Pete Graner (pgraner)

QA

Marjo Mercado (marjo)

Foundations (plumbing)

Robbie Williamson (robbiew)


CategoryProcess

DeveloperResponsibilities (last edited 2013-09-27 10:37:51 by adconrad)