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


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.