Re: [python-committers] Official python-dev docker images

2017-12-07 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Dec 7, 2017, at 19:34, Christian Heimes wrote: > > Shiny! You'll get extra bonus points for not running as root. :) Don’t forget, there’s a bug tracker you can submit requests to. > I'm curious, what is the reason of compiling CPython yourself? Ubuntu > has the

Re: [python-committers] Promote Julien Palard as core developer

2017-12-07 Thread Carol Willing
Enthusiastic +1 from me. Great work on docs and localization. On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 3:02 PM, Ned Deily wrote: > On Dec 6, 2017, at 19:48, Victor Stinner wrote: > > I propose to promote Julien Palard as a core developer. > > A big +2 from me. Julien

Re: [python-committers] Official python-dev docker images

2017-12-07 Thread Christian Heimes
On 2017-12-07 19:00, Barry Warsaw wrote: > As part of the importlib_resources skunkworks project Brett and I have been > working on (just announced), we’ve also put together a nice Docker image that > we’re using for our automated testing. This image is based on Ubuntu 16.04 > and provides the

Re: [python-committers] Official python-dev docker images

2017-12-07 Thread Christian Heimes
On 2017-12-07 22:28, Barry Warsaw wrote: > That’s good feedback! I want to be clear about the purpose of this image, > both in that it’s blessed and maintained by us, and that its focus is on the > Python library and application developer (primarily for testing purposes). > > So maybe:

Re: [python-committers] Number of contributors

2017-12-07 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le 07/12/2017 à 23:20, Victor Stinner a écrit : > > 2017-12-07 0:39 GMT+01:00 Antoine Pitrou : >> Therefore, we should strive to attract more contributors in the hope >> that the number of core developers selected out of those contributors >> will also increase. > > Over the

Re: [python-committers] RFC: Process to become a core developer

2017-12-07 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le 07/12/2017 à 23:38, Victor Stinner a écrit : > > Another option is the idea proposed in parenthesis, that contributors > mentor them each other. I wouldn't count as the official required > mentoring, but it would help anyway. I think that it is already > happening right now on the

Re: [python-committers] RFC: Process to become a core developer

2017-12-07 Thread Victor Stinner
2017-12-07 19:21 GMT+01:00 Antoine Pitrou : >> == Step 2: Bug Triage Permission == >> >> Once a contributor becomes active enough, a core developer can propose >> to give the bug triage permission to the contributor. > > It sounds like you are not taking into account what was

Re: [python-committers] Requirements to get the "bug triage" permission?

2017-12-07 Thread Victor Stinner
(I tried to answer to all replies. Since I chose to reply in a single email, so I chose to reply to own initial email.) Hi, It seems like I didn't express my ideas with the right words and so misguided the discussion. I'm sorry about that. I wrote a full "promotion process" document where I

Re: [python-committers] Cheryl Sabella was promoted to get bug triage permission

2017-12-07 Thread Victor Stinner
2017-12-06 18:43 GMT+01:00 Victor Stinner : > FYI She pushed not less than 14 commits into the master branch since > August, 2017. Oops, I used the wrong command to count her number of commits. vstinner@apu$ git log --author='Cheryl Sabella'|grep ^commit|wc -l 14 In

Re: [python-committers] Official python-dev docker images

2017-12-07 Thread Barry Warsaw
[Continuing to CC Abhilash, who is not on this list. -B] > On Dec 7, 2017, at 14:36, R. David Murray wrote: > > On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 13:00:31 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> Brett and I want to promote this more widely within the Python >> community as the

Re: [python-committers] Promote Julien Palard as core developer

2017-12-07 Thread Ned Deily
On Dec 6, 2017, at 19:48, Victor Stinner wrote: > I propose to promote Julien Palard as a core developer. A big +2 from me. Julien has been extremely helpful over the past half year or so with multiple behind-the-scenes documentation build issues. As Victor notes,

Re: [python-committers] Cheryl Sabella was promoted to get bug triage permission

2017-12-07 Thread Brett Cannon
On Wed, 6 Dec 2017 at 10:25 Ethan Furman wrote: > On 12/06/2017 09:43 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: > > > Congrats Cheryl! > > Possibly a dumb question, but is Cheryl on this list? > Nope, but that's because we have kept this list to only core devs and not people who have triage

Re: [python-committers] Statistics: growth of core dev number vs growth of the code size/complexity

2017-12-07 Thread Brett Cannon
On Wed, 6 Dec 2017 at 15:17 Victor Stinner wrote: > Hi, > > I wrote a quick & dirty parser to compute statistics on *new* CPython > core developer per year using the following page as data: > https://devguide.python.org/developers/ > > 2007: 15 > 2008: 19 > 2009: 11 >

Re: [python-committers] Official python-dev docker images

2017-12-07 Thread R. David Murray
On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 13:00:31 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: > Brett and I want to promote this more widely within the Python > community as the “official Python Docker image” that projects can use > in their own testing environments, or base their own images on it. We > wanted

Re: [python-committers] RFC: Process to become a core developer

2017-12-07 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le 07/12/2017 à 19:01, Victor Stinner a écrit : > > IMHO the current blocker issue is that it is too hard to become a core > developer. I don't think so. It should not be harder than it was in 2010, yet we are promoting way less core developers than we did. See previous discussion. > A

Re: [python-committers] RFC: Process to become a core developer

2017-12-07 Thread Ethan Furman
On 12/07/2017 10:01 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: Note: I'm trying to avoid gender to be inclusive when mentioning a contributor by using "they" or "their". I'm not sure that it's correct in english, since english is not my first language. Is "they" acceptable to identify a single contributor, or

Re: [python-committers] Official python-dev docker images

2017-12-07 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Dec 7, 2017, at 13:00, Barry Warsaw wrote: > He’s an amazing amount of work to improve the quality of this image! Um, let me rephrase :) He’s done an amazing amount of work to improve the quality of this image! -Barry signature.asc Description: Message signed with

[python-committers] Official python-dev docker images

2017-12-07 Thread Barry Warsaw
As part of the importlib_resources skunkworks project Brett and I have been working on (just announced), we’ve also put together a nice Docker image that we’re using for our automated testing. This image is based on Ubuntu 16.04 and provides the latest stable releases of Python 2.7, and

Re: [python-committers] Sanyam Khurana has been promoted to get bug triage permission

2017-12-07 Thread Mariatta Wijaya
Congrats Sanyam! Thanks for your continued contributions :) Mariatta Wijaya On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 3:25 PM, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > Congratulations, and Welcome Sanyam!. > > Thank you, and keep up with your good work. > > > > On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Victor Stinner

Re: [python-committers] Promote Julien Palard as core developer

2017-12-07 Thread Mariatta Wijaya
Agree. +1! Mariatta Wijaya On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 8:29 AM, Ethan Furman wrote: > On 12/06/2017 04:48 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: > > I propose to promote Julien Palard as a core developer. >> > > I know that Julien doesn't have the typical profile of core >> developers, only

Re: [python-committers] Promote Julien Palard as core developer

2017-12-07 Thread Ethan Furman
On 12/06/2017 04:48 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: I propose to promote Julien Palard as a core developer. I know that Julien doesn't have the typical profile of core developers, only or mostly contribute to the code: Julien is currently focused on the doculmentation. Good documentation is

Re: [python-committers] Promote Julien Palard as core developer

2017-12-07 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 7 December 2017 at 10:48, Victor Stinner wrote: > Promoting Julien is part of my global idea/project of trying to > recognize more contributions which are not strictly code, but as > useful or even more useful than code! Python documentation is part of > Python's