Canonical’s kernel manager, Pete Graner, spoke at UbuCon—held just prior to SCALE 8x—on the “Ubuntu Kernel Development Process”. In the talk, he looked at how Ubuntu decides what goes into the kernel and how that kernel gets built and tested More here

Graner manages a “pretty big” group at Canonical, of 25 people split into two sub-groups, one focused on the kernel itself and the other on drivers. For each release, the kernel team chooses a “kernel release lead” (KRL) who is responsible for ensuring that the kernel is ready for the release and its users.