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William Benton

I'm based in Madison, WI, and I work for Red Hat on distributed computing. Before I joined Red Hat, my professional experience included teaching undergrad computer science, compiler and VM hacking, static program analysis, and music technology R&D.

I've been a Fedora user since the beginning (the first Linux distribution that I ran full-time on my personal computer was actually RHL 3.0.3), but got in to packaging for Fedora several years ago to help out the communities around some grid-based upstreams I've been involved with. My first Fedora packages were the Wallaby configuration service and its dependencies.

These days, my focus for Fedora is packaging and reviewing others' packages for the Big data SIG. Some of my more notable efforts have included packaging Apache Thrift for Fedora, bringing more of the Scala ecosystem into Fedora (including fixing the once-abandoned Scala compiler package), and reviewing big data and machine learning packages.

I'm happy to review Fedora packages, especially if they're related to my interests or expertise or if they're far enough from what I know to introduce me to something new. Here are the packages I'm currently maintaining.

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Involvement Mugshot You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) If you build it... (Koji Success I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) If you build it... (Koji Success II) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Junior Badger (Badger I) Let Me Introduce Myself Junior Editor Bloggin' it! (Planet I) Speak Up! Bloggin' it! (Planet III) Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Embryo Tadpole Egg You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) White Rabbit Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Associate Editor Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Senior Editor You Can Pry It From My Cold, Undead Hands Paranoid Panda Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) Override, you say? Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) It still works! If you build it... (Koji Success III) Tagger (Tagger II) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) What goes around comes around (Karma I) Packager Sponsor Partners in Crime Master Editor Delivery Vacation Blog Lobber (Planet VI) Fedora 21 Change Accepted What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Proven Packager Tadpole with Legs Origin Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Consolation Prize You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Senior Badger (Badger II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Top 500 Bona Fide Old Yeller Macaron (Cookie I) Don't Call it a Comeback Corporate Drone Froglet Take this and call me in the morning Adult Frog DevConf 2017 Speaker DevConf.us Attendee 2018