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Michel Lind
Personal information
Pronouns: he/him
Location: Greater Chicago Area, Illinois, USA
Homepage: https://michel-slm.name/
GPG key: 5DCE2E7E9C3B1CFFD335C1D78B229D2F7CCC04F2
Contact information
IRC: @salimma:fedora.im on irc.libera.chat
#devel, #epel, #rust
LinkedIn: michellind
Fediverse: @michelin@hachyderm.io
GitHub: michel-slm
GitLab: michel-slm

Fedora-specific information
FAS name: salimma
Fedora e-mail: salimma@fedoraproject.org
Fedora homepage: salimma.fedorapeople.org
 


README

Inspired by Manager Readmes

Setting expectations: I am employed to work on improving Linux distributions, and try to focus on tooling and policies that make maintaining packages easier across Fedora, EPEL, and CentOS Hyperscale SIG. With that in mind, and juggling family life, I cannot dedicate my full time to package maintenance - especially those I pick up as dependencies.

These are some tips on how to interact with me:

  • I normally operate on US Central Time, i.e. UTC-6 outside of US DST or UTC-5 timezone during DST
  • I don't work weekends. I might have some hours to wrap things up but family life and rest and recreation are sacrosanct
  • If I'm traveling, my Matrix display name will show my current timezone and rough location
  • If I'm on vacation, this is normally reflected in my Matrix display name, my Discourse status, and the Fedora vacation calendar
  • Let's be respectful of each other's time
    • If you send a PR, make sure it builds _and_ installs (use mock --postinstall or fedpkg mockbuild -- --postinstall) at least on your local machine
    • If you have a PR, and it relates to a Bugzilla issue, please mention the bug in your PR (e.g. "Fixes: rhbz#..." or "Resolves: rhbz#...") and that it shows in the changelog when you generate an SRPM
    • If I don't respond to your PR (especially if it builds and installs both locally and per the scratch build and installability tests), and I'm not on vacation, feel free to ping me on Matrix after one working day
    • If a PR is work in progress, please title it so (e.g. prefix it with [WIP])
    • If a non-WIP PR is broken for more than two weeks I reserve the right to close it to unclutter my packager dashboard
  • Dealing with broken tooling
    • Pagure's activity feed breaks for those with too many repositories, so the only notification I effectively get is via email and the packager dashboard after a long lag
      • Bear this in mind if I don't respond quickly. Those of us with group access to many packages are inundated
      • Go to the Bugzilla issue your PR fixes and add a link to your PR. This increases the chance I'll see it
  • Things not to do
    • If you are affected by a broken package, *do not* pile on release monitoring issues for the package to ask for updates. By definition those are low-priority. File a bug for your issue and mark it as depending on the release monitoring issue if you think that version will fix your issue

Fedora activities

SIGs

Changes

Packaging

I maintain quite a few packages, see the package database for the complete list:

My packaging interests falls under several categories; if there is any package you'd want to see packages that I might be interested in, feel free to send an email!

Programming languages

  • Functional languages (esp. Lisp dialects and Lua)
  • compiler frameworks (e.g. LLVM)
  • scripting languages (esp. Python)
  • GNOME-related languages (e.g. Vala)

Desktop

  • GNOME
  • GNUstep
  • ROX

Games

  • Board games
  • Cross-platform games

Console

  • bti, a command-line Twitter client
  • rlwrap, a wrapper for readline

Reviewer

See the full list

I am a packager sponsor; if you are new to Fedora and am looking for sponsorship, do contact me; especially (but not necessarily) if your packaging interests coincide with mine.

I was sponsored by Toshio Kuratomi, and have sponsored the following wonderful folks:

Proven packager

I am a proven packager, and can commit to packages I do not directly maintain; if you need a packaging bug fixed and the primary maintainer is non-responsive, let me know.

Porting

I have an interest in porting useful software from *BSD operating systems to Linux. My first port is cpdup, and I am currently porting the DragonFly Mail Agent. Both are from DragonFly BSD.

Fedora Badges

If you build it... (Koji Success III) If you build it... (Koji Success II) If you build it... (Koji Success I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Involvement Proven Packager Proven Tester Junior Badger (Badger I) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Ambassador Packager Sponsor Flock 2024 Attendee Pixel Perfect Night If you build it... (Koji Success IV) Binary Star Paranoid Panda Nuancier Bloggin' it! (Planet I) Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Fedora Mentor Summit 2024 Baby Badger Embryo DevConf.us 2024 Attendee Bloggin' it! (Planet III) Bona Fide Froglet Tadpole Egg Tadpole with Legs Vacation What goes up... (Koji Failure III) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Junior Editor Override, you say? Partners in Crime Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Mugshot What goes around comes around (Karma I) Take this and call me in the morning Senior Badger (Badger II) Associate Editor You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) It still works! Helping Hand The cat came back... No Longer a Ronin Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) Consolation Prize White Hat Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora I) Corporate Drone Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) What goes around comes around (Karma II) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Origin Delivery Let's do lunch! Macaron (Cookie I) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Parselmouth I Adult Frog Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Python SIG member Top 500 Crypto Badger White Rabbit Old Yeller Flock 2017 Attendee You Can Pry It From My Cold, Undead Hands Corporate Shill Patches (SCM V) What goes around comes around (Karma III) Flock 2019 Attendee You’re on a boat! Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Secretary General Speak Up! 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) Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020 Social Panda Taming the Bull (Tester V) I converted to btrfs! Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Senior Editor Let Me Introduce Myself Fedora 33 Change Accepted Master Badger (Badger III) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) nest-attendee-2020 It's a Cake Thing Science (Kernel Tester I) Science (Kernel Tester II) Top 100 All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing IV) NYE Party Panda Fedora 34 Change Accepted FOSDEM 2021 Attendee DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable IV) Lets have a party Fedora 34 Learning from Sensei Fedora 35 Change Accepted Community Survey Taker I Nest Attendee 2021 What goes around comes around (Karma IV) Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Lets have a party Fedora 35 I Voted: Fedora 35 The Bull Transcended (Tester VII) DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee Fedora 36 Change Accepted FOSDEM 2022 Attendee Fedora Mentor Summit 2022 Corporate Overlord Lets have a party Fedora 36 Community Survey Taker 2022 Both Bull and Self Transcended (Tester VIII) Museum Visitor Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Fedora 37 Change Accepted Lets have a party Fedora 37 Mic Check! (Updates-Testing V) Reaching the Source (Tester IX) Tectonic! (Updates-Stable V) SCaLE 20x Attendee I voted: Fedora 38 Let's have a party (Fedora 38) CentOS Connect 2023 Attendee Flock 2023 Attendee Community Survey Taker 2023 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) I voted: Fedora 39 FOSDEM 2024 Attendee CentOS Connect 2024 Attendee SCaLE 21x Attendee Red Hat Summit 2024 I voted: Fedora 40 Let's have a party (Fedora 40) Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) DevConf.cz 2024 Attendee Return to Society (Tester X) The Blessing of the FPL Now, I return to my farm Black and White (Cookie III)

Package updates per release

EPEL release package updates
EPEL9 and EPEL9 Next 303
EPEL8 and EPEL8 Next 203
EPEL7 37
EPEL6 109
EPEL5 50
Fedora release package updates
F40 330
F39 394
F38 398
F37 227
F36 192
F35 138
F34 179
F33 120
F32 68
F31 21
F30 14
F29 18
F28 15
F27 16
F26 4
F25 10
F24 19
F23 30
F22 22
F21 28