On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 12:34:55 -0500 David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > Hi Core Developers, > > First thing: I am *not* a CPython committer. I think most of you who are > will be somewhat familiar with me though. > > Second: I was a Director of the PSF for a long while, and continue to chair > some Working Groups. I've been mentioned in some PEPs. I have written a > lot of articles and have given a lot of talks about Python, including about > recent or pending PEPs and similar matters. I continue to work and train > around Python and open source (now with a focus on "data science", whatever > that is). > > Third: I follow python-ideas and python-dev rather closely, and fairly > often contribute ideas to those lists. > > Fourth: As I read PEP 8016, I cannot nominate myself to the Steering > Committee. That seems good and proper to me. But I believe I would be a > relevant and helpful member of the future Steering Committee if someone > wishes to nominate me and if the voters wish to elect me.
The primary question I would ask an external candidate is: how is it that you never became a core developer (which implies some amount of effort and dedication) but nevertheless would be willing to spend the effort and dedication needed for serving on a Steering Council (*)? (*) (or Committee, I don't remember :-)) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
