On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 at 23:25, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote:
>
> We don’t typically bother to make big announcements on distutils-sig for 
> maintainers of projects, however I’m making an exception in this case because 
> of the recent threads on virtualenv maintenance. The current core team of 
> virtualenv agrees that it is an important package, and deserves additional 
> maintenance, but have somewhat stepped back from it in recent times for a 
> variety of reasons (many ephemeral in nature).
>
> We’ve been happy to have a number of people step forward to offer help in 
> maintaining the project, and after some thought and discussion, we’ve decided 
> to extend an invitation of a commit bit to Bernat Gabor, and I’m happy to say 
> that he has graciously accepted, and is now part of the team. For those 
> unaware, Bernat is currently a developer for the tox project, which is one of 
> the major consumers of virtualenv which made him a great fit for 
> maintainership since it gives another real world perspective (consuming 
> virtualenv as an API, instead of as a tool) that the current team currently 
> lacked.

Very cool - welcome Bernat! (and thank you for volunteering!)

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncogh...@gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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