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Tom 'spot' Callaway

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You can email him at: tcallawa<AT>redhat.com
On IRC (freenode.net), he's "spot".

Roles

  • Tom 'spot' Callaway does not currently possess any notable mutant powers.
  • He is currently the Fedora Engineering Manager @ Red Hat.
  • He served three consecutive elected terms on the Fedora Board from 2007 to 2011.
  • He was responsible for the Aurora SPARC Linux Project, which was a port of Fedora to SPARC. This effort is long dead.
  • He has worked for Red Hat since February 2001, and is worshipped by lemurs throughout the known universe.
  • He is currently leading the Fedora Packaging Committee, responsible for RPM Packaging Standards and Practices.

Badges

Bona Fide If you build it... (Koji Success II) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) If you build it... (Koji Success III) If you build it... (Koji Success I) Junior Editor Senior Editor Associate Editor Speak Up! Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) Flock 2013 Attendee Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Tagger (Tagger II) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Junior Badger (Badger I) Proven Packager Involvement Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora I) Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora II) Riddle Me This Tanked! Crypto Panda Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Bloggin' it! (Planet III) Bloggin' it! (Planet I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Partners in Crime Master Editor What goes up... (Koji Failure III) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Trust me, I know what I am doing Mugshot Ambassador Let Me Introduce Myself Senior Badger (Badger II) Paranoid Panda Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F20) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) White Hat Secretary General White Rabbit Binary Star Baby Badger Tadpole Flock 2013 Speaker Froglet Old Yeller Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) You Can Pry It From My Cold, Undead Hands Embryo FOSDEM 2014 Attendee Tadpole with Legs Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Egg What goes around comes around (Karma I) Fedora Legal Badge of Doom Helping Hand What goes around comes around (Karma II) Override, you say? Crypto Badger Your call may be monitored for quality assurance The Last Argument of Kings All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) It still works! The Blessing of the FPL Patches (SCM V) Pycon 2014 Attendee Take this and call me in the morning What goes around comes around (Karma IV) Flock 2014 Speaker Flock 2014 Attendee Flock Paparazzi Party Pirate Nuancier 21 Consolation Prize Science (Kernel Tester I) Corporate Drone Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Senior Tagger (Tagger III) Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) Master Badger (Badger III) The Panda Is In Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Fedora 21 Change Accepted Flock 2013 Organizer Flock 2014 Organizer What goes around comes around (Karma III) Vacation Corporate Shill Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Missed the Train Flock 2015 Attendee Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) FOSDEM 2015 Attendee Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Flock 2015 Speaker Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing IV) OSCON 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Origin Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Packager Sponsor Delivery Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Adult Frog Nom Nom Nom Apprentice (Badge Artist I) Badge Muse (Badges Released I) Fedora at RH Summit, 2015 The cat came back... Like a Rock (Updates-Stable IV) United Packages of Fedora Science (Kernel Tester II) Chief Editor Flock 2015 Organizer Common Bugs Contributor Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Top 10 Top 100 Top 25 Top 500 Fedora 24 Change Accepted Nuancier F24 Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Parselmouth I Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora III) SELF 2016 Macklemore (Tagger V) Horcrux Master Tagger (Tagger IV) Taming the Bull (Tester V) Master Package Tagger (Package Tagger IV) Bronze Let's do lunch! Don't Call it a Comeback Gold Silver Flock 2016 Attendee Red Hat Summit 2016 Flock 2016 Organizer 3D Printing SIG Member Badge Muse (Badges Released II) Krakow Brews! Mic Check! (Updates-Testing V) Flock 2017 Attendee FOSDEM 2017 Attendee Red Hat Summit 2017 Corporate Overlord Steampunk Arcade OSCON 2017 Attendee Black and White (Cookie III) Board Member Tectonic! (Updates-Stable V) SCaLE 16x Attendee FOSDEM 2018 Attendee Red Hat Summit 2018 DevConf.us Attendee 2018 Flock 2018 Attendee Rollercoaster Restaurant Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) FOSDEM 2019 Attendee Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) You’re on a boat! Flock 2019 Attendee Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Parselmouth II I Voted: Fedora 31 It's a Cake Thing nest-attendee-2020 Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) I Voted: Fedora 33 FOSDEM 2021 Attendee Community Messenger I Red Hat Summit 2021 Council Member Museum Visitor I Voted: Fedora 34 Community Survey Taker I Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 36 SCaLE 19x Attendee Nest Attendee 2021 I Voted: Fedora 35 FOSDEM 2023 Attendee Flock 2023 Attendee The Bull Transcended (Tester VII) FOSDEM 2024 Attendee Fedora 38 Change Accepted CentOS Connect 2023 Attendee SCaLE 21x Attendee

Packages

He also maintains a LOT of packages in Fedora. He used to keep a list here, but it was a pain to maintain. Pkgdb has this list: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/spot?acls=owner&acls=commit (some things I only co-maintain, or are dead packages now)


While I do sponsor new Packagers, I do so rarely these days, mostly because I'm super busy.

Here is a list of some of the people I've sponsored:

Chuck R. Anderson
Dmitry Butskoy
Jeff Carlson
Didier Casse
Mark Cox
Kushal Das
Patrice Dumas
Ralf Ertzinger
Kevin Fenzi
Chris Grau
Kevin Gray
Ed Hill
Dan Horák
Neil Horman
Patrick Laughton
John Patrick Mahowald
José Matos
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
Karen Rei Pease
Ian Pilcher
Orion Poplawski
Jef Spaleta
Quentin Spencer
Richard A. Stout
Andreas Thienemann
Axel Thimm
Jason L Tibbitts III
Toni Willberg
Paul Wouters

If any of them screw up, feel free to let me know.