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


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.