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