Hello all,
Robert Collins is volunteering to help with maintenance and improvement of unittest. He's probably known to many of you, but Robert is the creator of subunit, testtools and many Python libraries particularly in the area of testing.
I'd like Robert to have commit rights for this purpose. He's already submitted quite a few fixes and patches. Most recently issue 16662.
http://bugs.python.org/issue16662
Robert is an experienced and accomplished Python developer, so won't need much mentoring beyond learning our development processes (which branches to merge to, when a bug fix can be backported etc). In as much as he needs any mentoring I'm more than happy to work with Robert.
Improvements to unittest, and design discussions around new APIs and API changes, will continue to happen on python-dev and on the tracker.
All the best,
Michael Foord