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William Benton

I'm based in Madison, WI, and I work for Red Hat on distributed computing. Before I joined Red Hat, my professional experience included teaching undergrad computer science, compiler and VM hacking, static program analysis, and music technology R&D.

I've been a Fedora user since the beginning (the first Linux distribution that I ran full-time on my personal computer was actually RHL 3.0.3), but got in to packaging for Fedora several years ago to help out the communities around some grid-based upstreams I've been involved with. My first Fedora packages were the Wallaby configuration service and its dependencies, which came to Fedora 15 from Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid.

These days, my focus for Fedora is packaging and reviewing others' packages for the Big data SIG. Some of my more notable efforts have included packaging Apache Thrift for Fedora, bringing more of the Scala ecosystem into Fedora (including fixing the once-abandoned Scala compiler package and packaging sbt), and reviewing big data and machine learning packages. I've proposed Fedora's improved support for Scala and the inclusion of Apache Spark as changes for F21.

I'm happy to review Fedora packages, especially if they're related to my interests or expertise or if they're far enough from what I know to introduce me to something new. Here are the packages I'm currently maintaining.

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Involvement Mugshot You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) If you build it... (Koji Success I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) If you build it... (Koji Success II) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Junior Badger (Badger I) Let Me Introduce Myself Junior Editor Bloggin' it! (Planet I) Speak Up! Bloggin' it! (Planet III) Egg Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Tadpole Embryo Associate Editor You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) White Rabbit Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Senior Editor Paranoid Panda Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) You Can Pry It From My Cold, Undead Hands Tagger (Tagger II) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) It still works! Override, you say? Partners in Crime Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) If you build it... (Koji Success III) What goes around comes around (Karma I) Consolation Prize Master Editor Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Packager Sponsor Vacation Blog Lobber (Planet VI) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Tadpole with Legs Origin Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Bona Fide Old Yeller Macaron (Cookie I) Top 500 Fedora 21 Change Accepted Proven Packager Senior Badger (Badger II) Delivery Don't Call it a Comeback DevConf 2017 Speaker Froglet Corporate Drone Take this and call me in the morning DevConf.us Attendee 2018 Adult Frog