[python-committers] Charles-François Natali (neologix)

[Brian Curtin]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 03:31, Victor Stinner
<victor.stinner at haypocalc.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This guy rocks! He understood and fixed many subtle bugs like race
> conditions recently. Example from the NEWS of Python 3.3:
>
> - Issue #12060: Use sig_atomic_t type and volatile keyword in the signal
>  module. Patch written by Charles-François Natali.
>
> - Issue #11849: Make it more likely for the system allocator to release
>  free()d memory arenas on glibc-based systems.  Patch by
> Charles-François
>  Natali.
>
> - Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the
> PyGILState_*
>  APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5.
> Patch
>  by Charles-François Natali.
>
> - Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was
> interrupted
>  (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS
> X. Patch
>  written by Charles-Francois Natali.
>
> - Issue #11811: ssl.get_server_certificate() is now IPv6-compatible.
> Patch
>  by Charles-François Natali.
>
> - Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when
> terminating
>  worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is
> being
>  shut down.  Patch by Charles-François Natali.
>
> - Issue #11757: select.select() now raises ValueError when a negative
> timeout
>  is passed (previously, a select.error with EINVAL would be raised).
> Patch
>  by Charles-François Natali.
>
> etc.
>
> I would to propose him to commit grant. What do you think?
>
> Victor


+1, he's been involved in some tougher issues and has been active for a
while now. I haven't looked at many of his patches but he has written
several, and his comments on issues have been pretty thorough.
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