On 09.01.2015 12:47, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 7 January 2015 at 20:22, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If David didn't contribute before, I'm against giving him directly the >> developer access. Different people repeat that you don't need to have >> the developer access to contribute. Send patches, review patches, >> comment issues, etc. >> >> We rejected candidates who had many previous contributions, just >> because they didn't contribute enough. > > That's not quite the guideline I personally use - for me, it's more > about whether someone being able to commit their own patches is likely > to be more efficient overall or not. > > If their patches are to a point where the only parts I'm handling are > the mechanics of doing the commit (i.e. they're already up to speed on > what makes for an appropriate change to the area under consideration), > and I trust them to be appropriately cautious when branching out to > other areas of the code base, then I'll propose granting them commit > access and teaching them the additional steps involved in actually > doing the commits and taking responsibility for them. > > The key is whether I feel that extra committer review step is still > providing value commensurate with the additional time it takes, and > that's something which varies on a case by case basis.
I'm with Nick here. The itertools module needs a new maintainer. If Davin can be that maintainer, definitely +1 on adding him, under the condition that Raymond provides some oversight in the first few months. BTW: How about having an "incubator" phase for new core devs ? The new candidate will get commit rights for say 3 months and after those 3 months, the mentor then suggests whether make the status permanent or not. As long as this is stated clearly from the beginning, I don't think people will feel offended if they end up not receiving the permanent status, and this will reduce the barrier for entry a lot. Learning on the job is a rather common practice in the industry these days :-) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jan 09 2015) >>> Python Projects, Coaching and Consulting ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC Plone/Zope Database Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers