Just to close (or continue) the loop on this thread, I just nominated David for the steering council: https://discuss.python.org/t/steering-council-nomination-david-mertz/647
Thanks for stepping forward with your interest and willingness to serve, David! --Chris On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 12:37 PM Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > > Hi David, > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 15:24:20 -0500 > David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > > > > I've been part of the Python community since 1998, but really active in it > > since about 2001. During the early 2000s, I wrote a large number of widely > > read articles promoting Python, often delving into explaining semi-obscure > > features and language design issues. Most of these were with in my column > > _Charming Python_. I believe that several changes in Python itself—such as > > making coroutines easier to use and the design of metaclasses and class > > decorators—were significantly influenced by things I wrote on the topics. > > [snip] > > Those are useful things to know, thank you. > > > If the core developers feel that the overwhelming qualification for the > > Steering Committee is familiarity with the C code base of CPython, then > > indeed I am not the best candidate for that. > > Obviously not the overwhelming qualification (though at least _some_ of > the committee members would have to be familiar with the C code base, I > think). > > > If language design issues are > > more important—and especially if thinking about Python's place among users > > and industry are important, then I think I'm a very good candidate for the > > role. > > That, but I think also familiarity with the development and > contribution process, will definitely play a role. In other words, if > some external candidate gets elected I would hope they take the time to > become familiar with how things work in that regard, and try to > contribute themselves (not necessarily to make important contributions > to the codebase but to understand the daily routine). > > 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/chris.jerdonek%40gmail.com _______________________________________________ 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
