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