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