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

Fri Mar 22 15:13:20 EDT 2019

Note that it would have to be in the Committers topic.

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:45 AM Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

> We discussed this and we think an anonymous vote on discuss.python.org is
> probably best for this sort of thing.
>
> Victor, did you want to do the poll or would you prefer I set it up?
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 10:01 AM Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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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