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[python-committers] Let's give commit privileges to Nathaniel J. Smith

Yury Selivanov yselivanov.ml at gmail.com
Wed Jan 24 18:23:23 EST 2018 
Hi,

I want to propose granting commit privileges to Nathaniel J. Smith.
He's interested in the idea of becoming a core developer, and given
the quality of his contributionsI think he won't need any extensive
mentoring (although I'll be happy to assist Nathaniel in the
beginning).

Nathaniel has been a prolific PEP author:

* Single-authored: PEP 465 Matrix Multiplication (accepted), PEP 521,
PEP 533, PEP 568;

* Co-authored: PEP 513 (active), PEP 516, PEP 517 (accepted), PEP 518
(accepted), PEP 522.

* Many PEPs mention his name in acknowledgements.

He also has a few sufficiently complex patches committed, some of
which touch complex areas like ceval loop and signals handling:

* bpo-32591: Add native coroutine origin tracking
* bpo-30579: Allow TracebackType creation and tb_next mutation from Python
* bpo-30050: Allow disabling full buffer warnings in signal.set_wakeup_fd
* bpo-30039: Don't run signal handlers while resuming a yield from stack
* bpo-30038: fix race condition in signal delivery + wakeup fd
* etc

He's been very active on python-dev, python-ideas, bugs.python.org and
github. Here's an example where Nathaniel's research helped us to make
a right decision to fix a broken socket object API:
https://bugs.python.org/msg308450.

He helped me quite a bit with the design of PEP 550 and PEP 567, and
he's doing some interesting work in the async/await area.

So... let's make it happen? :)

Yury
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