[Python-Dev] Thank yous (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Sun Jul 4 18:02:55 CEST 2010

Now that Python 2.7 is out, I'd like to thank a few of the people who made it possible:

Martin for building Windows Installers to my schedule, maintaining the tracker and PyPi, and providing lots of guidance and advice.
Ronald for building Mac installers.
Tarek for picking up the reins of distutils.
Jesse for being responsive to last minute multiprocessing bugs.
Georg for keeping the documentation excellent and numerous bug fixes.
Victor for fixing obscure unicode bugs and segfaults.
Ezio for plugging unicode holes and fixing docs.
Alexander Belopolsky for taking up datetime.
R. David Murray for picking up the email module.
Alexandre Vassalotti for various backports.
Mark for oiling Python's mathematical gears and explaining floating point to me.
Antoine for backporting the improved io module, memoryviews, adopting the ssl module, and numerous bug fixes.
Barry for mentoring me in the release process and testing out release.py.
Dirkjan for always getting us closer to Mercurial migration.
Andrew for writing "What's New in Python 2.7?" That's a lot of changes to keep up with.
And, of course, all of the people who reported bugs or submitted patches.

Thank you once again, Benjamin