[Python-Dev] Two developer candidates (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Sat, 09 Mar 2002 09:33:40 -0500

I've received just two requests from people to become developers:

Jeff Bauer (jeff@rubic.com) Bernard Yue (bernie@3captus.com) Jeff I know personally, as the Developer's Day chair and the WinCE port maintainer. I don't know Bernie though I recognized his name. The posts I saw from him on google were all answers to questions other people had. Sort of looked like a mini-python-help archive. Bernie is the chief architect at 3captus in Hong Kong. They produce a product in Python that takes data feeds from other sources and creates XML-RPC or SOAP servers that can be used to generate subscription-based services. I don't have a problem with either Jeff or Bernie being granted developer privileges. Feel free to add your two cents.

Great! I have one reservation, but maybe I should be talked out of it: I don't recall seeing patches submitted to SF by either of these. Maybe we need to give them a trial period where they submit their work to SF first? Soon enough we'll see if they're worth giving commit privileges based upon the volume of their output.

Or am I being too conservative? It could be that the chore of uploading to SF is enough of a deterrent to make these good folks unproductive... Chicken or egg, really. Should we just go for it?

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