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Nils Philippsen
Nils Philippsen
Personal Information
Birthday: May 1974
Home: Leonberg, Germany
Fedora-specific Information
FAS-Name: nphilipp
Fedora-Mail: nphilipp@fedoraproject.org
Miscellaneous Information
Private Mail: nils@tiptoe.de
GPG-Key: 7D537FCAE9F6395D
IRC: nils on Libera.chat in
#fedora-apps #fedora-devel #fedora-infra
Badges (147)
Devendorizor White Rabbit Proven Packager Involvement Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) If you build it... (Koji Success II) If you build it... (Koji Success I) Bona Fide If you build it... (Koji Success III) Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Junior Badger (Badger I) Partners in Crime In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Packager Sponsor Mugshot What goes up... (Koji Failure I) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Embryo Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Catching the Bull (Tester IV) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) Baby Badger Riddle Me This Junior Editor Binary Star Crypto Panda Let Me Introduce Myself If you build it... (Koji Success IV) White Hat Froglet Tadpole Egg Tadpole with Legs It still works! Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Take this and call me in the morning What goes around comes around (Karma I) What goes around comes around (Karma II) Helping Hand The cat came back... Consolation Prize Missed the Train Stop That Update! What goes around comes around (Karma III) Origin Adult Frog Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Science (Kernel Tester III) Nuancier F24 Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Science (Kernel Tester IV) Master Badger (Badger III) Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F25) What goes around comes around (Karma IV) Nuancier F26 Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI) All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing IV) DevConf.cz 2020 Attendee Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) I Voted: Fedora 32 I converted to btrfs! nest-attendee-2020 Lets have a party Fedora 33 DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation Learning from Sensei Community Survey Taker I United Packages of Fedora Fedora Week of Diversity Maestro Lets have a party Fedora 35 DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee Let's have a party (Fedora 38) Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) Creative Freedom Summit 2024 Attendee CentOS Connect 2024 Attendee Senior Badger (Badger II) Corporate Drone Science (Kernel Tester II) Paranoid Panda Old Yeller Macaron (Cookie I) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Secretary General Override, you say? Top 500 DevConf 2016 Attendee Top 100 Senior Editor Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora I) Master Editor Modularity WG Member DevConf 2017 Attendee What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) No Longer a Ronin Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable IV) Lets have a party Fedora 34 Lets have a party Fedora 36 I Voted: Fedora 36 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 37 Community Survey Taker 2023 I voted: Fedora 39 Corporate Shill You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) Speak Up! Vacation Flock 2014 Attendee Science (Kernel Tester I) Taming the Bull (Tester V) DevConf 2015 Attendee Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Delivery Associate Editor Parselmouth I Crypto Badger Patches (SCM V) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Nuancier F28 Black and White (Cookie III) The Bull Transcended (Tester VII) I Voted: Fedora 33 Fedora 35 Change Accepted Museum Visitor Nest Attendee 2021 Trust me, I know what I am doing Fedora 38 Change Accepted Both Bull and Self Transcended (Tester VIII)
 


About Me

I’m a Software Engineer working for Red Hat in Community Platform Engineering, the team maintaining Fedora and CentOS infrastructure. I develop software (mostly in Python) and maintain way too many packages in Fedora. I'm also a proven packager and packager sponsor.