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

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Fri Mar 22 13:01:24 EDT 2019


On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 9:33 AM M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> +1 (not exactly sure how the vote would work, so at this point just
> an indication of support)
>

I've started a discussion with the council to see how we may want to handle
it.

-Brett


>
> On 22.03.2019 16:40, Victor Stinner wrote:
> > Oh. I forgot to mention that I offer to mentor Stéphane once he would
> > become a core dev for 1 month for help him to deal with his new
> > responsibilities. I would require him to ask me before merging any PR
> > during the mentoring.
> >
> > Victor
> >
> > Le ven. 22 mars 2019 à 16:34, Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com> a
> écrit :
> >>
> >> 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
> >
> >
> >
>
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