Who wants to be Davin's mentor and tell him to do the steps outlined in https://docs.python.org/devguide/coredev.html#gaining-commit-privileges ?

On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 at 01:04 Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> wrote:
On 05.03.16 09:21, Berker Peksağ wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 10:07 PM Raymond Hettinger
>> <raymond.hettinger@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mar 4, 2016, at 4:07 PM, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I guess I'm just worried about the health of this project. I'm doing
>>>> what I can through the migration to GitHub to make it easier for others to
>>>> get involved while making it easier for us to accept the work of others, but
>>>> the maintenance and health of this team worries me. For instance, if you
>>>> look at the developer's log you will notice we only gained 2 core devs for
>>>> all of 2015 and the last one was August 2015:
>>>
>>> Last year on this list, I recommended that Davin Potts be granted core
>>> developer status for his on-going work on the multiprocessing module.  This
>>> group collectively said no, leaving Davin in an odd and uncomfortable limbo.
>>
>>
>> Huh?  Searching for Davin Potts in my mail, I see a ~27 message long thread
>> from January 2015 about that.  Many of us were +1 to give him commit rights.
>>
>> I personally assumed it had happened, but the only objections seemed to be
>> "lets see some patches first"... That part has happened:
>>
>> Among the other things in my mail with Davin's name mentioned are several
>> streams of committed patches over the past year or so on multiprocessing
>> related issues (as expected), including recently.
>>
>> berker.peksag, martin.panter and serhiy.storchaka have been the primary
>> committers of said Davin patches.
>
> +1!
>
> I was going to send an email to python-committers about this a couple
> weeks ago, but I couldn't find enough time (or I was just lazy :)) to
> collect issue numbers (he did a great job on triaging old
> multiprocessing issues) and commits.

+1 from me. I have committed not too much Davin's patches (they were not
easy), but confirm his proficiency. We need an expert in this domain.


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