[python-committers] Adding Ivan Levkivskyi as a core committer

[Guido van Rossum]

Well he also wrote and implemented PEP 562 (overriding __getattr__ and
__dir__ on modules). I'd be happy to tell him to gain other developers'
trust before barging into other areas. But isn't that how all core devs
work by default?

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Guido,
>
> Since the typing module is out of my interest area, I didn't notice
> Ivan contributions, so it's hard for me to give an opinion.
>
> Should I understand that he will mostly contribute to the typing
> module? If (in the beginning?) we restrict him to the typing module, I
> will simply rely on your judgment Guido. I know that you are following
> the topic closely and so are very good to estimate his skills.
>
> I'm not talking about technically restricting Ivan to the typing
> module. It's more that I expect him to request an approval by other
> core developers if he wants to touch other parts of CPython. In my
> experience, developers are already doing that naturally, but I would
> prefer to clarify this point.
>
> Victor
>
> 2017-12-06 2:00 GMT+01:00 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:
> > I'd like to propose Ivan Levkivskyi as a new core committer. He's
> > (re-)written most of the typing.py module and will do so again for Python
> > 3.7, he's the sole or primary author on several PEPs (526, 544, 560,
> 562),
> > is co-author on several more (483, 561) and has been acknowledged in yet
> > others (557, 563).
> >
> > He is responsible for at least 16 commits in master.
> >
> > I have worked with him for a long time on typing.py and on mypy (where
> he is
> > a core dev) and I can vouch for him completely.
> >
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