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Nils Philippsen
Nils Philippsen
Personal Information
Birthday: May 1974
Home: Leonberg, Germany
Fedora-specific Information
FAS-Name: nphilipp
Fedora-Mail: nphilipp@fedoraproject.org
Miscellaneous Information
Private Mail: nils@tiptoe.de
GPG-Key: 7D537FCAE9F6395D
IRC: nils on Libera.chat in
#fedora-apps #fedora-devel #fedora-infra
Badges (147)
Devendorizor White Rabbit Proven Packager Involvement Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) If you build it... (Koji Success II) If you build it... (Koji Success I) Bona Fide If you build it... (Koji Success III) Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Junior Badger (Badger I) Partners in Crime In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Packager Sponsor Mugshot What goes up... (Koji Failure I) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Embryo Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Catching the Bull (Tester IV) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) Baby Badger Riddle Me This Junior Editor Binary Star Crypto Panda Let Me Introduce Myself If you build it... (Koji Success IV) White Hat Froglet Tadpole Egg Tadpole with Legs Senior Badger (Badger II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) It still works! Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Speak Up! Take this and call me in the morning What goes around comes around (Karma II) What goes around comes around (Karma I) Vacation Helping Hand The cat came back... Flock 2014 Attendee Science (Kernel Tester I) Missed the Train Consolation Prize Stop That Update! What goes around comes around (Karma III) Corporate Drone Taming the Bull (Tester V) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Science (Kernel Tester II) DevConf 2015 Attendee Paranoid Panda Origin Old Yeller Macaron (Cookie I) Delivery Adult Frog Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Associate Editor Secretary General Override, you say? Parselmouth I Crypto Badger Science (Kernel Tester III) Senior Editor Top 500 Nuancier F24 DevConf 2016 Attendee Top 100 Patches (SCM V) Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora I) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Master Badger (Badger III) Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Master Editor Modularity WG Member Science (Kernel Tester IV) Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F25) What goes around comes around (Karma IV) DevConf 2017 Attendee Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Nuancier F26 Nuancier F28 Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Black and White (Cookie III) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing IV) DevConf.cz 2020 Attendee Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Lets have a party Fedora 33 I Voted: Fedora 32 No Longer a Ronin I converted to btrfs! nest-attendee-2020 The Bull Transcended (Tester VII) Pizzelle (Cookie IV) DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 33 Fedora 35 Change Accepted Lets have a party Fedora 34 Like a Rock (Updates-Stable IV) Learning from Sensei Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation Museum Visitor Community Survey Taker I United Packages of Fedora Nest Attendee 2021 Maestro Fedora Week of Diversity Lets have a party Fedora 36 Lets have a party Fedora 35 DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 36 Trust me, I know what I am doing Lets have a party Fedora 37 Fedora 38 Change Accepted Let's have a party (Fedora 38) Creative Freedom Summit 2024 Attendee Community Survey Taker 2023 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) I voted: Fedora 39 CentOS Connect 2024 Attendee Both Bull and Self Transcended (Tester VIII) Corporate Shill
 


About Me

I’m a Software Engineer working for Red Hat in Community Platform Engineering, the team maintaining Fedora and CentOS infrastructure. I develop software (mostly in Python) and maintain way too many packages in Fedora. I'm also a proven packager and packager sponsor.