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Tom 'spot' Callaway

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You can email him at: tcallawa<AT>redhat.com
On IRC (freenode.net), he's "spot".

Roles

  • Tom 'spot' Callaway does not currently possess any notable mutant powers.
  • He is currently the Fedora Engineering Manager @ Red Hat.
  • He served three consecutive elected terms on the Fedora Board from 2007 to 2011.
  • He was responsible for the Aurora SPARC Linux Project, which was a port of Fedora to SPARC. This effort is long dead.
  • He has worked for Red Hat since February 2001, and is worshipped by lemurs throughout the known universe.
  • He is currently leading the Fedora Packaging Committee, responsible for RPM Packaging Standards and Practices.

Badges

Bona Fide If you build it... (Koji Success II) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) If you build it... (Koji Success III) If you build it... (Koji Success I) Junior Editor Senior Editor Associate Editor Speak Up! Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) Flock 2013 Attendee Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Tagger (Tagger II) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Junior Badger (Badger I) Proven Packager Involvement Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora I) Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora II) Riddle Me This Tanked! Crypto Panda Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Bloggin' it! (Planet III) Bloggin' it! (Planet I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Partners in Crime Master Editor What goes up... (Koji Failure III) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Trust me, I know what I am doing Mugshot Ambassador Let Me Introduce Myself Senior Badger (Badger II) Paranoid Panda Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F20) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) White Hat Secretary General White Rabbit Binary Star Baby Badger Flock 2013 Speaker Old Yeller Tadpole Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) You Can Pry It From My Cold, Undead Hands Embryo Froglet FOSDEM 2014 Attendee Egg Tadpole with Legs Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Override, you say? Fedora Legal Badge of Doom What goes around comes around (Karma I) What goes around comes around (Karma II) Helping Hand The Last Argument of Kings Your call may be monitored for quality assurance Patches (SCM V) Crypto Badger The Blessing of the FPL Pycon 2014 Attendee It still works! All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Take this and call me in the morning Flock 2014 Speaker Corporate Drone Flock 2014 Attendee Flock Paparazzi Party Pirate Science (Kernel Tester I) Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Senior Tagger (Tagger III) Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) Nuancier 21 Master Badger (Badger III) The Panda Is In Consolation Prize Fedora 21 Change Accepted What goes around comes around (Karma IV) What goes around comes around (Karma III) Flock 2013 Organizer Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Vacation Flock 2014 Organizer Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Corporate Shill Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Missed the Train Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Flock 2015 Attendee Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Flock 2015 Speaker FOSDEM 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) OSCON 2015 Attendee Origin Packager Sponsor Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing IV) Adult Frog Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Delivery Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Nom Nom Nom The cat came back... Badge Muse (Badges Released I) Chief Editor Fedora at RH Summit, 2015 Flock 2015 Organizer Common Bugs Contributor Like a Rock (Updates-Stable IV) United Packages of Fedora Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Apprentice (Badge Artist I) Science (Kernel Tester II) Nuancier F24 Top 10 Top 100 Top 25 Top 500 Parselmouth I Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Fedora 24 Change Accepted Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora III) Master Package Tagger (Package Tagger IV) SELF 2016 Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Macklemore (Tagger V) Horcrux Master Tagger (Tagger IV) Let's do lunch! Taming the Bull (Tester V) Bronze Silver Don't Call it a Comeback Gold Krakow Brews! Red Hat Summit 2016 3D Printing SIG Member Flock 2016 Organizer Flock 2016 Attendee Mic Check! (Updates-Testing V) Badge Muse (Badges Released II) Flock 2017 Attendee FOSDEM 2017 Attendee Red Hat Summit 2017 Black and White (Cookie III) Corporate Overlord Steampunk Arcade OSCON 2017 Attendee Tectonic! (Updates-Stable V) Board Member Rollercoaster Restaurant Red Hat Summit 2018 Flock 2018 Attendee FOSDEM 2018 Attendee SCaLE 16x Attendee DevConf.us Attendee 2018 Flock 2019 Attendee FOSDEM 2019 Attendee Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) You’re on a boat! Parselmouth II I Voted: Fedora 31 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) nest-attendee-2020 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) It's a Cake Thing Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI) Red Hat Summit 2021 I Voted: Fedora 33 FOSDEM 2021 Attendee Council Member Community Messenger I Nest Attendee 2021 I Voted: Fedora 34 Museum Visitor Community Survey Taker I Fedora 38 Change Accepted I Voted: Fedora 35 I Voted: Fedora 36 SCaLE 19x Attendee Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee SCaLE 21x Attendee CentOS Connect 2023 Attendee FOSDEM 2023 Attendee Flock 2023 Attendee The Bull Transcended (Tester VII) FOSDEM 2024 Attendee

Packages

He also maintains a LOT of packages in Fedora. He used to keep a list here, but it was a pain to maintain. Pkgdb has this list: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/spot?acls=owner&acls=commit (some things I only co-maintain, or are dead packages now)


While I do sponsor new Packagers, I do so rarely these days, mostly because I'm super busy.

Here is a list of some of the people I've sponsored:

Chuck R. Anderson
Dmitry Butskoy
Jeff Carlson
Didier Casse
Mark Cox
Kushal Das
Patrice Dumas
Ralf Ertzinger
Kevin Fenzi
Chris Grau
Kevin Gray
Ed Hill
Dan Horák
Neil Horman
Patrick Laughton
John Patrick Mahowald
José Matos
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
Karen Rei Pease
Ian Pilcher
Orion Poplawski
Jef Spaleta
Quentin Spencer
Richard A. Stout
Andreas Thienemann
Axel Thimm
Jason L Tibbitts III
Toni Willberg
Paul Wouters

If any of them screw up, feel free to let me know.