Guido van Rossum
But the merges into the core will be tough. Imagine submitting a 5000-line patch and saying "I've worked on this for a year, please adopt it." Will we do enough code review to assert the code quality?
Pardon for hijacking the moratorium discussion, but this is the kind of problem we already have with externally-maintained modules (such as json). The way they are updated is that once in a while (once a year perhaps), their author comes with a huge patch that we should ideally review, except that it's very difficult to do so -- especially given that it's about a piece of code that we don't know well in the first place.
PS. My elbow needs a couple more weeks of rest. Limiting myself to ultra-short emails.
I hope you'll get better soon! Regards Antoine.