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