[python-committers] Vote to promote Stéphane Wirtel as a core dev

[Victor Stinner]

Hi,

Julien Palard and me (Victor) propose to promote Stéphane Wirtel as
core developer. We open a vote until March 31 (~one week). "[A
promotion] is granted by receiving at least two-thirds positive votes
in a core team vote and no veto by the steering council."
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0013/#the-core-team

Some of you already met him at Pycon US or EuroPython.

Stéphane is contributing to Python since 2014. He fixed bugs in
various parts of the code, but also implemented some nice
features:

* -d option of "python3 -m http.server -d DIRECTORY"
   to serve a specific directory using Python builtin HTTP Server
* --fast and --best options on gzip CLI: "python3 -m gzip [options] file"

(Julien told me that he frequently uses "python3 -m http.server -d
DIRECTORY" to read the Python documentation :-))

In my experience, Stéphane *likes* getting review and is fine to make
any change on his code. It's not an issue to work with him, it's more
the opposite :-) For example, it doesn't get mad if one of his PR is
rejected ;-) (I'm saying that because *I* sometimes get mad about
that, sorry for being emotional :-))

He got 57 commits merged into the master branch of Python: authored 46
commits + co-authored 1 commit + 10 commits before Git ("Patch written
by Stéphane Wirtel").

He organized a Python conference at FOSDEM 5 times in a row (between
80 and 800 persons per year) and got a PSF Community Service Awards in
June 2016 for that: "Stéphane Wirtel for his work organizing a Python
User Group in Belgium, for his continued work creating marketing
material for the PSF, for his continued outreach efforts with
spreading the PSF's mission."
https://www.python.org/community/awards/psf-awards/#june-2016

He is also helping to organize EuroPython, by working on the website
or being a volunteer on-site.

He gave a lot of Python talks all around the world at many Pycon
(France, EuroPython, Canda, Italy, Ireland, UK, San Sebastiàn,
Slovakia, Ukraine) and at FOSDEM (Belgium). For example, he gave talks
about Python internals (bytecode, parser), and on Python development
workflow and Pull Requests.

He is always volunteer to help the Python project, not only the code.
For example, he is a committer on the developer guide (devguide).

He is helping other contributors get their bugs fixed or to get their
changes merged. He participated to not less than 218 PR: ping the
right core dev who can review/help, test manually to validate and
provide good feedback, propose enhancements, etc. Sometimes, he just
says "Thank you for your contribution" which is IMHO a good practice
for a healthy community :-) (we don't do that often enough!)

Stéphane is involved in Python for 5 years. To be honest, he should
have been promoted earlier, but I (Victor) wasn't sure to promote him
myself because I know him too well, and so I wasn't objective about
his work. But well, now it's time, and Julien is supporting his
promotion as well ;-)

Links:

* https://wirtel.be/
* https://twitter.com/matrixise

Julien and Victor