Biography

Michael Stahnke began working with Unix in the late 1990s.  After getting a CS 
degree from Ball State in 2002, he quickly found his passion in Linux 
administration and automation. He has worked with Fortune 100 companies, and 
several open source projects.  Michael has concentrated on Identity Management 
as well security integration into administration and automation processes. 

In 2005, Michael authored Pro OpenSSH for Apress Publishing.  Michael also 
joined the Fedora project in that year.  Today he (co)maintains about 30 
packages, and is an active member on the  Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 
(EPEL) steering committee.  He also contributes to the Spacewalk project, the 
Ruby special Interest Group, and several other facets of the Fedora Project.

In 2008, Michael moved to a leadership position on his Unix and Virtualization 
team at Caterpillar.  Michael also works as an independent contractor for 
various technology organizations in Nashville, TN.

Proposal


Do you maintain packages internally across several RHEL Versions and 
architectures?  If you do, are you using mock?  Mock is a tool designed to help 
ease the building of rpm packages across versions and architectures. It is also 
part of the tool-chain used by Fedora package maintainers and works in business 
context perfectly. In this Birds of Feather demonstration and discussion, 
Michael Stahnke will discuss and demo mock building rpms, signing them and 
pushing them to a yum repo or spacewalk/rhn channel.