I am a developer on Canonical's Ubuntu ServerTeam. My objective is to develop, extend, package, and support the software that comprises Ubuntu's Server, making it easy to use and secure. I actively triage and fix bug reports against Ubuntu Server packages.

Contact Information

Projects

Contributions

Ubuntu

Bugs Fixed

A selection of a few of the bugs I've fixed lately:

• 44836, 45842, 46145, 46516, 155947, 187048, 187403, 194318, 199663, 203966, 206198, 222830, 224945

Packages Prepared

• Virtualization metapackages: [https://edge.launchpad.net/~kirkland/+archive ubuntu-virt-server, ubuntu-virt-mgmt]

• LTP merged: [http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/universe/l/ltp/ltp_20080229-0ubuntu2/changelog Hardy Changelog]

• cyrus-sasl2 merged: [http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/c/cyrus-sasl2/cyrus-sasl2_2.1.22.dfsg1-18ubuntu2/changelog Hardy changelog]

Ubuntu Documentation Search

• http://people.ubuntu.com/~kirkland/search.html

Authored Projects

I have authored and continue to maintain the following open source projects:

• Ubuntu Documentation Search - http://people.ubuntu.com/~kirkland/search.html

• Pictor - https://edge.launchpad.net/pictor

• Musica - https://edge.launchpad.net/musica

• Lynx-Web-App - https://edge.launchpad.net/lynx-web-app

• Bogo Sec - http://bogosec.sourceforge.net/

Contributed Projects

I have contributed functionality to the following projects:

• Linux (kernel) - audit subsystem, SELinux labels

• Audit (Linux audit userspace subsystem) - comparators

• Yaboot (PowerPC bootloader) - software RAID, bootonce

• Anaconda (Red Hat/Fedora installer) - software RAID for PowerPC, incremental ISO integrity check

• Autotest (automated testing framework) - ltp-diff, conmux

• LTP (Linux Test Project) - various tests for EAL certification

Publications

• Linux Software RAID - http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/library/os-ltc-filesystems/Linux-Software-RAID-Tutorial.pdf

• Bogo Sec - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-bogosec.html

• Linux system auditing by example (acknowledged for code) - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-security-audit.html