[Cython] Welcome David Woods as a Cython core developer

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Sun Jul 31 05:15:47 EDT 2022


Hi everyone,

with the release of the first 3.0 alpha that supports Python 3.11 (aptly 
named "alpha 11"), I'm happy to announce that David Woods has been promoted 
to a Cython core developer.

David has shown an extraordinary commitment and dedication over the last 
years. His first merged commits were already back in 2015, mostly related 
to the C++ support. But within the last two years, he voluntarily took over 
more and more responsibility for bugs and issues and developed several 
major new features for the project. This includes the Walrus operator (PEP 
572), cdef dataclasses (modelled after PEP 557), internal "std::move()" 
usage in C++ mode or support for Unicode identifiers and module names, all 
of which form a major part of the 3.0 feature set. David has more than 
deserved a place in the circle of present and prior core devs.

David, thank you for your impressive work on Cython,
and welcome to the core team!

Stefan


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