[Python-Dev] Request for developer privileges. (original) (raw)

Neal Norwitz nnorwitz at gmail.com
Thu Dec 21 05:43:15 CET 2006

Hi Lars.

Thanks for all your work on tarfile!

Please send your ssh2 key to pydotorg at python.org as an attachment. One of us will add your key. Hopefully I can remember how to do it. Here's some other info: http://www.python.org/dev/faq/#subversion-svn

I can't add you to SF to be assigned bugs since I'm not an admin. So hopefully one of the admins can either add me as an admin or you as a developer.

I already updated Misc/developers.txt.

n

On 12/20/06, Lars Gustäbel <lars at gustaebel.de> wrote:

Hello,

my name is Lars Gustäbel (SF gustaebel). I contributed tarfile.py to the Python standard library in January 2003 and have been the maintainer since then. I have provided about 25 patches over the years, most of them fixes, some of them new features and improvements. As a result, I am pretty familiar with the Python development process. If possible I would like to get developer privileges to be able to work more actively on tarfile.py for a certain time. I am currently implementing read-write POSIX.1-2001 pax format support. Development is still in progress, but it is already clear at this point, that it will be a complex change, which will definitely require some maintenance once it is finished and in day-to-day use. I would like to clean up the tarfile test suite during this process as well. The introduction of the pax format is important because it is the first tar specification that puts an end to those annoying limitations of the "original" tar format. It will become the default format for GNU tar some day. Thank you, Lars. -- Lars Gustäbel lars at gustaebel.de

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