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[python-committers] Commit access for David Malcolm

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sat Feb 20 19:15:55 CET 2010 
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
> 2010/2/20 Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin at gmail.com>:
>> David Malcolm is the Fedora maintainer for the Python package and has
>> written a gdb plugin to replace and dramatically improve our old
>> Misc/gdbinit file using the new python scripting support in gdb-7. You
>> can see it in action at
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EasierPythonDebugging#User_Experience.
>> I'd like to get this into our repository asap, but he's also going to
>> be improving it fairly quickly. So it'd be nice if he could commit his
>> improvements directly.
>>
>> Do you guys think we should give him commit access so he can make gdb
>> and packaging-related changes?
>
> While I'm not opposed to this, perhaps the plugin should stabilize
> before it is added to the tree?

Assuming it's new optional functionality that doesn't affect the core
at all, I think we can let it in before it stabilizes.

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