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I'm on the Infrastructure team and share the position of Development Manager with Pierre-Yves Chibon.

Projects I've worked on

  • I wrote fedmsg, the Fedora Infrastructure message bus, and most of the related services.
  • There's datanommer which stores the fedmsg history in a postgres database (and marks up the stored messages with associated metadata).
  • Closely related is datagrepper, a web services that allows people and programs to query the fedmsg history.
  • Flowing from that, I wrote Fedora Badges which uses the fedmsg stream to award "badges" to contributors based on their contributions.
  • I wrote FMN, the centralized notifications service. It allows users to get direct IRC messages or emails about a variety of topics based on self-service preferences.
  • One of many more fedmsg parts -- I wrote github2fedmsg which allows contributors to map their GitHub activity onto our message bus.
  • I try to be generally helpful with our infrastructure ansible repo, improving scripts and configuration layout.
  • Although I didn't write the initial go-through, I've become a co-maintainer of the fedora-packages app, working on enhancements, repairs, and operations.
  • I wrote a CLI tool called pkgwat to call up quick information about packages across branches.
  • The first thing I ever wrote for Fedora was fedora-tagger (before I was an RH employee).
  • In 2014, I started writing the bodhi2 frontend.

I also try to maintain some packages.

Lighter weight, but still fun:

Further upstream

  • I've put work into Moksha, one of the components underlying the fedmsg stack.
  • I wrote and maintain an awesome extension to taskwarrior called bugwarrior. It syncs issues from github, bitbucket, trac, bugzilla, megaplan, teamlab, redmien, jira, activecollab, phabricator and versionone to a local task database. I use it to produce my weekly timesheets.
  • A little script, but I really like ansi2html (also for timesheets).

Way back when...

  • I wrote a neat webapp called narcissus that visualizes web server traffic in real time.
  • And my first major open source endeavor was as the mis-fortuned maintainer of toscawidgets2.


Actual tasks

You can review my timesheets at http://threebean.org/timesheets/latest.html to see what I'm working on right now.

Here's the gist of how I make that report.


OS Developer


Web Developer or Administrator


Ralph Bean

Personal Information

FAS-Name: ralph

Country - Region:

United States, NY

B-day: 06/03/1984

Languages:

  • English

Mail: rbean@red___.com

IRC nick: threebean

Website: http://threebean.org

Fedora Badges (174)

Flock 2013 Attendee Tagger (Tagger II) Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Involvement Speak Up! Junior Editor Associate Editor Secretary General Senior Tagger (Tagger III) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) If you build it... (Koji Success I) If you build it... (Koji Success II) If you build it... (Koji Success III) Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora II) Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora I) Riddle Me This You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Junior Badger (Badger I) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Tanked! Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Bona Fide Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F20) Senior Badger (Badger II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Partners in Crime Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Master Tagger (Tagger IV) Inside Job White Rabbit Mugshot Trust me, I know what I am doing Maestro Let Me Introduce Myself Binary Star Packager Sponsor Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Bloggin' it! (Planet III) Bloggin' it! (Planet I) White Hat Nuancier Embryo Taming the Bull (Tester V) Common Bugs Contributor Baby Badger Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing IV) Old Yeller Flock 2013 Speaker Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) Senior Editor Tadpole Egg Tadpole with Legs Badge Off! Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI) Master Package Tagger (Package Tagger IV) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) DevConf 2014 Speaker Patches (SCM V) DevConf 2014 Attendee All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) What goes around comes around (Karma I) It still works! Take this and call me in the morning Pycon 2014 Attendee Helping Hand The Blessing of the FPL Flock 2014 Speaker Flock 2014 Attendee Corporate Overlord Corporate Shill Corporate Drone Master Badger (Badger III) Crypto Panda Mic Check! (Updates-Testing V) What goes around comes around (Karma IV) Macaron (Cookie I) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Parselmouth I Froglet Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Silver Top 10 Top 100 Top 25 Top 500 DevConf 2016 Attendee Bronze Horcrux Badge Junkie (Badger IV) DevConf 2017 Speaker Fedora 27 Change Accepted Both Bull and Self Transcended (Tester VIII) DevConf 2018 Attendee Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) No Longer a Ronin Override, you say? Videographer Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Missed the Train Paranoid Panda What goes around comes around (Karma II) Master Editor The Bull Transcended (Tester VII) Dancing with Toshio Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) The cat came back... Apprentice (Badge Artist I) Design Ninja Flock 2015 Speaker Tectonic! (Updates-Stable V) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Origin Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Badge Muse (Badges Released IV) Badge Muse (Badges Released II) Badge Muse (Badges Released I) Badge Muse (Badges Released III) Badge Muse (Badges Released V) Nom Nom Nom Fedora 24 Change Accepted PyCon 2016 Attendee Flock 2016 Speaker Rainbow (Cookie V) Flock 2017 Attendee CommOps Superstar Like a Rock (Updates-Stable IV) Vacation Let's do lunch! What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) What goes around comes around (Karma III) Science (Kernel Tester I) Party Pirate Nuancier 21 Consolation Prize Flock 2015 Attendee Nuancier (F22) Delivery Black and White (Cookie III) Rockin' & Rollin' Chief Editor BrickHack 2016 Attendee DevConf 2016 Speaker Parselmouth II Parselmouth III Flock 2016 Attendee Krakow Brews! Modularity WG Member Fedora 26 Change Accepted Unchained Adult Frog