Stefan Krah
It does not sound interesting at all -- Python development is increasingly turning into a circus, with fewer and fewer people actually writing code.
An interesting metric is to compute how much the set of posters on this "meta" thread intersects the set of the most active developers: $ hg churn -c -d "2015 to 2016" storchaka@gmail.com 1142 ************************************* victor.stinner@gmail.com 803 ************************** benjamin@python.org 582 ******************* yselivanov@sprymix.com 441 ************** tjreedy@udel.edu 394 ************* steve.dower@microsoft.com 302 ********** berker.peksag@gmail.com 285 ********* python@rcn.com 265 ********* zachary.ware@gmail.com 236 ******** vadmium+py@gmail.com 220 ******* larry@hastings.org 158 ***** nad@acm.org 121 **** rdmurray@bitdance.com 113 **** rbtcollins@hp.com 106 *** [...] (of course this is not entirely fair, since some people like Donald are quite active in other related areas) Regards Antoine.