New Kernel Uploaders

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Thu May 14 14:57:31 UTC 2026


Today, the Kernel Uploaders Team[1] had an ad-hoc Matrix meeting on
#kernel:ubuntu.com with the following people in attendence:

Team Members:
  Alessio Faina                  ~alessiofaina       @alessiofaina:ubuntu.com
  Alice Munduruca                ~cremfuelled        @cremfuelled:ubuntu.com
  Andy Whitcroft                 ~apw                @apw:ubuntu.com
  Benjamin Wheeler               ~benjaminwheeler    @bentel_inside:matrix.org
  Bethany Jamison                ~bjamison           @bjamison:matrix.org
  Edoardo Canepa                 ~ecanepa            @ecanepa:matrix.org
  Emil Renner Berthing           ~esmil              @esmil:matrix.org
  Ian Whitfield                  ~ijwhitfield        @ijwhitfield:ubuntu.com
  Jacob Martin                   ~jacobmartin        @jacobmartin:ubuntu.com
  John Cabaj                     ~john-cabaj         @john-cabaj:matrix.org
  Kevin Becker                   ~kevinbecker        @kevinbecker:ubuntu.com
  Magali Lemes do Sacramento     ~magalilemes        @magalilemes:ubuntu.com
  Manuel Diewald                 ~diewald            @diewald:ubuntu.com
  Mehmet Basaran                 ~mehmetbasaran      @mehmetbasaran:ubuntu.com
  Noah Wager                     ~nwager             @nwager:ubuntu.com
  Phil Cox                       ~philcox            @philcox:matrix.org
  Sarah Emery                    ~semerys            @semerys:ubuntu.com
  Stefan Bader                   ~smb                @esembee:matrix.org
  Tim Whisonant                  ~tswhison           @tswhison:ubuntu.com
  Vinicius Peixoto               ~vpeixoto           @nukelet:nukelet.dev

Applicants:
  Gabriela Bittencourt           ~gbittencourt       @gbittencourt:ubuntu.com

Observers:
                                                     @ravage:xentonix.net
                                                     @steve:mtx.fairfaxmedia.net

This announcement and the meeting transcript is available in our
meeting repository[2].

[1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel-uploaders
[2] https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel-uploaders/+git/meetings/tree/20260514/?h=main

We reviewed the application[3] by Gabriela Bittencourt
(~gbittencourt)[4] for Kernel Upload Rights.  After representations by
the applicant and their sponsors a vote was held as below:

  Alessio Faina                  +1
  Alice Munduruca                +1
  Andy Whitcroft                 +1
  Benjamin Wheeler               +1
  Bethany Jamison                +1
  Edoardo Canepa                 +1
  Emil Renner Berthing           +1
  Ian Whitfield                  +1
  Jacob Martin                   +1
  John Cabaj                     +1
  Kevin Becker                   +1
  Magali Lemes do Sacramento     +1
  Manuel Diewald                 +1
  Mehmet Basaran                 +1
  Noah Wager                     +1
  Phil Cox                       +1
  Sarah Emery                    +1
  Stefan Bader                   +1
  Tim Whisonant                  +1
  Vinicius Peixoto               +1

The application was unanimously approved; congratulations to Gabriela
Bittencourt.

[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/gbittencourt/KernelUploadRightsApplication
[4] https://launchpad.net/~gbittencourt

Congratulations to all of the successful applicants.  Enjoy your new
rights.  Andy Whitcroft (~apw) was tasked with adding them to the
~ubuntu-kernel-uploaders team and announcing these results.

-apw (on behalf of the ~ubuntu-kernel-uploaders team)



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