On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Brian Curtin <brian.cur...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 03:31, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> This guy rocks! He understood and fixed many subtle bugs like race >> conditions recently. Example from the NEWS of Python 3.3: >> >> - Issue #12060: Use sig_atomic_t type and volatile keyword in the signal >> module. Patch written by Charles-François Natali. >> >> - Issue #11849: Make it more likely for the system allocator to release >> free()d memory arenas on glibc-based systems. Patch by >> Charles-François >> Natali. >> >> - Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the >> PyGILState_* >> APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. >> Patch >> by Charles-François Natali. >> >> - Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was >> interrupted >> (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS >> X. Patch >> written by Charles-Francois Natali. >> >> - Issue #11811: ssl.get_server_certificate() is now IPv6-compatible. >> Patch >> by Charles-François Natali. >> >> - Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when >> terminating >> worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is >> being >> shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali. >> >> - Issue #11757: select.select() now raises ValueError when a negative >> timeout >> is passed (previously, a select.error with EINVAL would be raised). >> Patch >> by Charles-François Natali. >> >> etc. >> >> I would to propose him to commit grant. What do you think? >> >> Victor > > +1, he's been involved in some tougher issues and has been active for a > while now. I haven't looked at many of his patches but he has written > several, and his comments on issues have been pretty thorough.
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