[Cython] Welcome David Woods as a Cython core developer

da-woods dw-git at d-woods.co.uk
Sun Jul 31 14:51:29 EDT 2022


Hi,

I'm not sure if it's necessary to for me to reply to this, but: thanks. 
Hopefully some of the features will be (or already have been) useful to 
people.

David

On 31/07/2022 10:15, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> 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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