[python-committers] Promote Stefan Behnel as a core developer

[Victor Stinner]

Hi,

Le dim. 24 mars 2019 à 17:14, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> a écrit :
> I propose to promote Stefan Behnel (aka scoder on the tracker and
> GitHub) as a core developer. Perhaps not one from us is surprised that
> he is not yet a core developer.

I discussed with Stefan this week and I told him that I was surprised
that he is not a core developer yet. I didn't follow Stefan's recent
work, so I didn't feel able to propose him (and I am already proposing
another Stéphane, Stéphane Wirtel, this week :-)). It seems like
Serhiy offers to propose to promote him, good! Stefan has my +1 (I
voted at discuss.python.org).


> Stefan is a core developer of Cython (...)

Cython became a major project in the Python community (see the PSF
award). I noticed that sometimes Cython is slow to be updated to
support new Python changes (like the new way to store exceptions in
PyThreadState of Python 3.7).

It became frequent that major projects like numpy fail to be build on
"python nightly" because Cython doesn't work on the master branch of
Python.

I don't expect Stefan to be suddenly more active upstream in term of
fixing random Python issues. I would like to see Stefan working more
closely with developers who are modifying Python internals. For
example, the change moving PyInterpreterState to the internal API
(Include/internal). If such change breaks Cython, it would help to see
the authors of such changes helping Stefan to fix Cython. Or at least,
Stefan notify the authors. Slowly, I hope that Cython will collaborate
more with Python upstream.

Victor
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