We discussed this and we think an anonymous vote on discuss.python.org is probably best for this sort of thing.

Victor, did you want to do the poll or would you prefer I set it up?

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 10:01 AM Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:


On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 9:33 AM M.-A. Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> wrote:
+1 (not exactly sure how the vote would work, so at this point just
an indication of support)

I've started a discussion with the council to see how we may want to handle it.

-Brett
 

On 22.03.2019 16:40, Victor Stinner wrote:
> Oh. I forgot to mention that I offer to mentor Stéphane once he would
> become a core dev for 1 month for help him to deal with his new
> responsibilities. I would require him to ask me before merging any PR
> during the mentoring.
>
> Victor
>
> Le ven. 22 mars 2019 à 16:34, Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com> a écrit :
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Julien Palard and me (Victor) propose to promote Stéphane Wirtel as
>> core developer. We open a vote until March 31 (~one week). "[A
>> promotion] is granted by receiving at least two-thirds positive votes
>> in a core team vote and no veto by the steering council."
>> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0013/#the-core-team
>>
>> Some of you already met him at Pycon US or EuroPython.
>>
>> Stéphane is contributing to Python since 2014. He fixed bugs in
>> various parts of the code, but also implemented some nice
>> features:
>>
>> * -d option of "python3 -m http.server -d DIRECTORY"
>>    to serve a specific directory using Python builtin HTTP Server
>> * --fast and --best options on gzip CLI: "python3 -m gzip [options] file"
>>
>> (Julien told me that he frequently uses "python3 -m http.server -d
>> DIRECTORY" to read the Python documentation :-))
>>
>> In my experience, Stéphane *likes* getting review and is fine to make
>> any change on his code. It's not an issue to work with him, it's more
>> the opposite :-) For example, it doesn't get mad if one of his PR is
>> rejected ;-) (I'm saying that because *I* sometimes get mad about
>> that, sorry for being emotional :-))
>>
>> He got 57 commits merged into the master branch of Python: authored 46
>> commits + co-authored 1 commit + 10 commits before Git ("Patch written
>> by Stéphane Wirtel").
>>
>> He organized a Python conference at FOSDEM 5 times in a row (between
>> 80 and 800 persons per year) and got a PSF Community Service Awards in
>> June 2016 for that: "Stéphane Wirtel for his work organizing a Python
>> User Group in Belgium, for his continued work creating marketing
>> material for the PSF, for his continued outreach efforts with
>> spreading the PSF's mission."
>> https://www.python.org/community/awards/psf-awards/#june-2016
>>
>> He is also helping to organize EuroPython, by working on the website
>> or being a volunteer on-site.
>>
>> He gave a lot of Python talks all around the world at many Pycon
>> (France, EuroPython, Canda, Italy, Ireland, UK, San Sebastiàn,
>> Slovakia, Ukraine) and at FOSDEM (Belgium). For example, he gave talks
>> about Python internals (bytecode, parser), and on Python development
>> workflow and Pull Requests.
>>
>> He is always volunteer to help the Python project, not only the code.
>> For example, he is a committer on the developer guide (devguide).
>>
>> He is helping other contributors get their bugs fixed or to get their
>> changes merged. He participated to not less than 218 PR: ping the
>> right core dev who can review/help, test manually to validate and
>> provide good feedback, propose enhancements, etc. Sometimes, he just
>> says "Thank you for your contribution" which is IMHO a good practice
>> for a healthy community :-) (we don't do that often enough!)
>>
>> Stéphane is involved in Python for 5 years. To be honest, he should
>> have been promoted earlier, but I (Victor) wasn't sure to promote him
>> myself because I know him too well, and so I wasn't objective about
>> his work. But well, now it's time, and Julien is supporting his
>> promotion as well ;-)
>>
>> Links:
>>
>> * https://wirtel.be/
>> * https://twitter.com/matrixise
>>
>> Julien and Victor
>
>
>

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