On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
Mariatta Wijaya has been working hard to become a Python core developer. At this point she has worked with several of us and I think she has had two dozen or more accepted patches.
She is still green but is persistent, conscientious, and learning fast. She is more willing than most of us to work on the little tasks that so often go unattended.
Do you all think it is time that we accepted our first female core developer? I would like to see that happen before she speaks at Pycon this year and possibly right away if you all are in agreement.
I volunteer to continue to provide mentorship and assistance to her as needed after she is granted commit rights.
I'd like to see some triaging, code review and more work on complicated patches first. I reviewed some of Mariatta's patches and they needed at least two review rounds to meet our documentation guidelines. See http://bugs.python.org/issue26149 for a recent example.
--Berker