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

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Thu Jan 25 12:56:41 EST 2018 
Done, making Nathaniel the 90th member of the current core team! He also
needs to send a subscription request for python-committers.

On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 at 09:24 Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> Alright, it's decided!  I now envy Nathaniel a bit, so many people +1-ed!
>
> I've added Nathaniel to devguide/developers.rst, and I believe Victor
> has already elevated his permissions on the bug tracker.
>
> Can someone with admin permissions on github.com/python invite
> Nathaniel to the Core Developers team?
>
> Yury
>
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > +1
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 12:23 AM, Yury Selivanov
> > <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 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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