# Distribution Package Maintainers Introductions **URL:** \ **Category:** Project Discussions\ **Tags:** distro-packaging\ **Created:** [September 18, 2023, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901 "2023-09-18T20:45:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gotmax23](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gotmax23/32/106_2.png) [@gotmax23](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gotmax23)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2023, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901/1 "2023-09-18T20:45:08Z")
We now have a [Distribution Package Maintainers](http://forum.ansible.com/g/distro-packagers) group on the forum. This group is for distribution package maintainers of ansible, ansible-core, collections, and other [Ansible ecosystem](https://docs.ansible.com/ecosystem) projects. Distribution package maintainers, please introduce yourselves below. What distribution(s) do you contribute to? Which Ansible-related packages do you maintain? What challenges do you face? Specify whether you’d like to join the [Distribution Package Maintainers](http://forum.ansible.com/g/distro-packagers) group. We’d be happy to have you! ---
**Author:** ![gotmax23](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gotmax23/32/106_2.png) [@gotmax23](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gotmax23)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901/2 "2023-09-19T02:45:50Z")
I have added @aheath1992 of Fedora Linux, @Antiz of Arch Linux, and @nirik of Fedora Linux. Welcome! Feel free to continue the discussion below! You’ll get notified for first posts in [Topics tagged distro-packaging](http://forum.ansible.com/tag/distro-packaging). You can customize your notification settings if you don’t want that. ---
**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 9:15am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901/3 "2023-09-19T09:15:33Z")
Welcome indeed folks 👋, glad to have you here (and thanks @gotmax23 for setting up the group)! Let me know if there’s anything I can do for you from the admin side 🙂 @gotmax23 if it makes more sense for you, you’re welcome to change the group config to “request access” which will allow people to just click a button if they want to join (you still get to approve it). ---
**Author:** ![aheath1992](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@aheath1992](https://forum.ansible.com/u/aheath1992)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901/4 "2023-09-19T13:34:08Z")
Hi, My name is Andrew Heath, I am a Senior Systems Administrator at Red Hat, I help maintain Ansible Automation Platform for Red Hat IT. I help out with the Fedora Infrastructure team maintaining critical infrastructure. Currently I Maintain the [ansible-collection-awx-awx](https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ansible-collection-awx-awx) RPM and have other Ansible collections and tools in the works to be packaged. ---
**Author:** ![rfc2549](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/rfc2549/32/197_2.png) [@rfc2549](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rfc2549)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 1:28am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901/5 "2023-09-20T01:28:47Z")
Hello, For brevity, my introduction is in that other thread: > [@Introduce yourself!](http://forum.ansible.com/t/introduce-yourself/15/23): > > o/ I’m David and I greet you from Montreal in Canada where I do open source things between dev ops and dad ops nowadays. I’ve been using Ansible and contributing to the community in different ways since at least 2014, as far back as version 1.8 or so. I think simplicity is a feature and coming from Puppet, it was a breath of fresh air slight_smile I eventually authored [ARA Records Ansible](https://github.com/ansible-community/ara) to make my own life easier dealing with millions of playbooks across thousands of hosts back in the Ope… I was otherwise formerly in the Ansible community team and did things like shipping the `ansible` package to PyPI and helping with [Fedora’s transition from Ansible 2.9](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Ansible5), amongst other things. Nowadays I help with the packaging and maintenance of various Ansible things. Happy to be a member of the group if you will have me 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gotmax23](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gotmax23/32/106_2.png) [@gotmax23](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gotmax23)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 3:40am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901/6 "2023-09-20T03:40:36Z")
Welcome @rfc2549! I have added you to the group. I appreciate your help with the Fedora ansible packages and work on ara. ---
**Author:** ![gotmax23](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gotmax23/32/106_2.png) [@gotmax23](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gotmax23)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 3:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901/7 "2023-09-20T03:42:59Z")
> [@gwmngilfen](#): > > you’re welcome to change the group config to “request access” which will allow people to just click a button if they want to join (you still get to approve it). I think I’ll try this approach for now, as it’s a bit more personal and allows folks to identify/introduce themselves, but we can consider that for the future 🙂 . ---
**Author:** ![nirik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/nirik/32/686_2.png) [@nirik](https://forum.ansible.com/u/nirik)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901/8 "2023-09-20T16:42:19Z")
Quick intro from me: I’m Kevin Fenzi, I’ve been around basically forever now. 😉 I started maintaining ansible in Fedora/EPEL around ansible 1.0 (2013). My day job is Fedora Infrastructure, where we have been using ansible since it’s existed basically. I’m pretty busy these days, but happy to help out as I can. ---
**Author:** ![deric.crago](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/deric.crago/32/749_2.png) [@deric.crago](https://forum.ansible.com/u/deric.crago)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 11:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901/9 "2023-09-20T23:50:04Z")
Hi, I’m Deric. I’ve been helping out with the [Ansible in Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/~ansible) PPAs for a couple of years now. Feel free to add me to the group. ---
**Author:** ![gotmax23](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gotmax23/32/106_2.png) [@gotmax23](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gotmax23)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 4:30am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901/10 "2023-09-21T04:30:42Z")
Welcome, Deric! I’ve added you to the group. ---
**Author:** ![Leo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/leo/32/23_2.png) [@Leo](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Leo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901/11 "2023-09-21T17:35:26Z")
This is great, happy to see Fedora, Arch and Ubuntu already on board! @gotmax23 may I suggest a section in the group description with the distro each is covering? I think it would be useful to list what distributions are being covered by the group and putting a “face” to each of them. ps. Great to see you here @deric.crago! 🎉 ---
**Author:** ![gotmax23](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gotmax23/32/106_2.png) [@gotmax23](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gotmax23)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 6:31am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901/12 "2023-09-22T06:31:20Z")
> [@Leo](#): > > @gotmax23 may I suggest a section in the group description with the distro each is covering? I think it would be useful to list what distributions are being covered by the group and putting a “face” to each of them. That’s a good idea. It seems the group description view does not properly create links for @ mentions, but I guess I can do it manually. I’ll add that later. ---
**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 6:43am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901/13 "2023-09-22T06:43:43Z")
> [@gotmax23](#): > > the group description view does properly create links for @ mentions Reporting that to CDCK, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![gotmax23](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gotmax23/32/106_2.png) [@gotmax23](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gotmax23)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2023, 11:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901/14 "2023-09-25T23:57:11Z")
> [@Leo](#): > > @gotmax23 may I suggest a section in the group description with the distro each is covering? I think it would be useful to list what distributions are being covered by the group and putting a “face” to each of them. Done! I’ve edited the description. ---
**Author:** ![Antiz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/antiz/32/831_2.png) [@Antiz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Antiz)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2023, 9:26am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901/15 "2023-09-26T09:26:10Z")
Hi everyone, thanks for having me! 😄 My name’s Robin Candau, I’m a french Linux system and DevOps engineer passionate by skate, music, (craft) beer and, obviously, Linux! I’m also an [Arch Linux Package Maintainer](https://archlinux.org/people/trusted-users/#Antiz). [Packages I maintain](https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=&maintainer=Antiz&flagged=) include ansible, ansible-core, ansible-lint, ansible-bender, ansible-language-server, ansible-compat and molecule. I’m using ansible on a daily basis for various tasks, both at work and for personal stuff, so I’m really happy to contribute back to it by maintaining a few of the related packages! ---
**Author:** ![johanneskastl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/johanneskastl/32/841_2.png) [@johanneskastl](https://forum.ansible.com/u/johanneskastl)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 7:37am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901/16 "2023-09-27T07:37:08Z")
Hi all, Johannes here, maintainer for Ansible, ansible-lint and other Ansible-related packages at openSUSE. In addition to Ansible stuff I maintain a lot of cloud-native packages for openSUSE. `johanneskastl` on Github, codeberg or Gitlab. `@johanneskastl@digitalcourage.social` on Mastodon. Nice to see a group for packagers! Have a lot of fun! Johannes ---
**Author:** ![gotmax23](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gotmax23/32/106_2.png) [@gotmax23](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gotmax23)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901/17 "2023-09-27T15:40:25Z")
Welcome, Johannes! I have added you to the group. ---
**Author:** ![gotmax23](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gotmax23/32/106_2.png) [@gotmax23](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gotmax23)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901/18 "2023-09-27T19:22:47Z")
We now have folks from Fedora, Arch Linux, the Ubuntu PPA, and OpenSUSE! That’s great! If you have anything to discuss, feel free to create a topic tagged with #distro-packaging. Otherwise, feel free to explore the forum and turn on your Distribution Packager flair. ---
**Author:** ![Leo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/leo/32/23_2.png) [@Leo](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Leo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901/19 "2025-04-14T16:43:50Z")
Hi all! I would like to present @Alexander_Jacocks to the distro package mantainers group. Alex is maintaining some of the [Ansible development tools packages in the Arch Linux AUR repo](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&SeB=M&K=ajacocks&outdated&SB=p&SO=d&PP=50&submit=Go) and is interested in collaborating and meeting the rest of the community involved in packaging. I will just mention he is a Red Hatter and we recently met in person during an event. I will leave him to introduce himself! Welcome Alex! ps. @Antiz is here in the Forum and is the maintainer for ansible-core, the ansible community package and a few other Ansible related packages for Arch Linux, you two might want to chat on best practices or suggestions around packaging for Arch! ---
**Author:** ![Antiz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/antiz/32/831_2.png) [@Antiz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Antiz)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901/20 "2025-04-14T18:29:52Z")
👋 > Hi all! I would like to present @Alexander_Jacocks to the distro package mantainers group. Alex is maintaining some of the [Ansible development tools packages in the Arch Linux AUR repo](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&SeB=M&K=ajacocks&outdated&SB=p&SO=d&PP=50&submit=Go) and is interested in collaborating and meeting the rest of the community involved in packaging. Welcome @Alexander_Jacocks! Thanks for contributing / maintaining some PKGBUILDs in the AUR 🤗 > ps. @Antiz is here in the Forum and is the maintainer for ansible-core, the ansible community package and a few other Ansible related packages for Arch Linux, you two might want to chat on best practices or suggestions around packaging for Arch! Sure, if you want to have a chat around Arch packaging or you want to discuss the inclusion of some Ansible related packages to the official Arch repositories (if that’s of interest), feel free to contact me at [antiz@archlinux.org](mailto:antiz@archlinux.org)! [Next page](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901.md?page=2)