Re: [python-committers] Proposed core developer for contributing to multiprocessing

2015-01-10 Thread Senthil Kumaran
I have not been active for past year or so. But here is are thoughts on this process. The important thing should be "contribution" and a developer's personal satisfaction comes from contribution. The commit access IMO is secondary, but is very important and as it helps contributor to move at a fa

Re: [python-committers] Proposed core developer for contributing to multiprocessing

2015-01-10 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le 11/01/2015 03:01, Brett Cannon a écrit : > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015, 18:01 Antoine Pitrou > wrote: > > > Le 10/01/2015 21:16, Brett Cannon a écrit : > > I'm +1 as well since Raymond has said he will mentor Davin the way > > through and I'm willing to exp

Re: [python-committers] Proposed core developer for contributing to multiprocessing

2015-01-10 Thread Brett Cannon
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015, 18:01 Antoine Pitrou wrote: Le 10/01/2015 21:16, Brett Cannon a écrit : > I'm +1 as well since Raymond has said he will mentor Davin the way > through and I'm willing to experiment with giving commit rights earlier > based on personal vouching of a core developer. We have

Re: [python-committers] Proposed core developer for contributing to multiprocessing

2015-01-10 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le 10/01/2015 21:16, Brett Cannon a écrit : > I'm +1 as well since Raymond has said he will mentor Davin the way > through and I'm willing to experiment with giving commit rights earlier > based on personal vouching of a core developer. We have already experimented with that. People like Jean-Pau

Re: [python-committers] Proposed core developer for contributing to multiprocessing

2015-01-10 Thread Brett Cannon
I'm +1 as well since Raymond has said he will mentor Davin the way through and I'm willing to experiment with giving commit rights earlier based on personal vouching of a core developer. On Sat Jan 10 2015 at 3:09:43 PM Gregory P. Smith wrote: > +1 for commit access, Raymond volunteered as a men

Re: [python-committers] Proposed core developer for contributing to multiprocessing

2015-01-10 Thread Ned Deily
On Jan 10, 2015, at 12:09, Gregory P. Smith wrote: > > +1 for commit access, Raymond volunteered as a mentor. > > I agree with MAL, it is more beneficial to trust people and give out commit > access early. +1, for all of those reasons. My only concern is trying to ensure that Richard (sbt) i

Re: [python-committers] Proposed core developer for contributing to multiprocessing

2015-01-10 Thread Gregory P. Smith
+1 for commit access, Raymond volunteered as a mentor. I agree with MAL, it is more beneficial to trust people and give out commit access early. -gregory.p.smith On Sat Jan 10 2015 at 9:16:26 AM Ethan Furman wrote: > On 01/06/2015 11:09 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > > > I would like to prop

Re: [python-committers] Proposed core developer for contributing to multiprocessing

2015-01-10 Thread Ethan Furman
On 01/06/2015 11:09 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > I would like to propose Davin Potts as core developer to take on the > responsibility for maintaining the multiprocessing > package. > > I've been working with him on and off for over a year and found him to be > highly skilled, thoughtful, a

Re: [python-committers] Proposed core developer for contributing to multiprocessing

2015-01-10 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le 10/01/2015 14:53, M.-A. Lemburg a écrit : > > Anyway, I think I've made my point now :-) If other committers > feel that we don't need to have a more welcoming approach to > new developers, that's fine. I half-agree with Berker: the number one problem is enough people to review patches and gu

Re: [python-committers] Proposed core developer for contributing to multiprocessing

2015-01-10 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 10.01.2015 13:38, Berker Peksağ wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:33 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> Hi Ezio, >> >> I think I'm not making myself clear enough :-) >> >> Technically, operations would stay the same (tickets, patches, reviews), >> but from a motivational point of view, you change th

Re: [python-committers] Proposed core developer for contributing to multiprocessing

2015-01-10 Thread Berker Peksağ
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:33 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > Hi Ezio, > > I think I'm not making myself clear enough :-) > > Technically, operations would stay the same (tickets, patches, reviews), > but from a motivational point of view, you change things a lot for the > better if you put trust into

Re: [python-committers] Proposed core developer for contributing to multiprocessing

2015-01-10 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Hi Ezio, I think I'm not making myself clear enough :-) Technically, operations would stay the same (tickets, patches, reviews), but from a motivational point of view, you change things a lot for the better if you put trust into people by giving them the commit bit early. The "incubation" period

Re: [python-committers] Proposed core developer for contributing to multiprocessing

2015-01-10 Thread Georg Brandl
On 01/10/2015 12:03 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >>> Antoine and Victor argued that new developers should first >>> show their skills by submitting patches to tickets, working >>> with other core devs before getting the commit bit set. >>> >>> My suggestion was allowing new developers to start committ