[python-committers] Commit privileges for Eli Bendersky

[Georg Brandl]

Am 09.01.2011 00:09, schrieb Terry Reedy:
> Two years ago, Eli Bendersky submitted to the tracker one of several duplicate
> reports about problems with difflib.SequenceMatcher. After I consolidated and
> closed all issues but one, he wrote me, said he wanted to get more involved in
> Python development, and offered to help with that and other issues. Since then
> he has actively participated in 34 issues, submitting 1 or more patches to 20
> issues, listed below. Of those, 14 are closed. I believe his work always or
> nearly always contributed to the commit. Another has been committed to 3.2 and
> is only open for backports and possible tweaks. Another is waiting for 3.3,
> another for my response. His activity has covered core, library, and doc issues.
> He can work on C, Python, and .rst code and text He has shown himself to be a
> careful reader of both code and text. He has also participated a bit on pydev.
> 
> I believe he said last September, in private email in response to my query, that
> he would like full developer privileges 'someday'. Before I reviewed his tracker
> activity, I was merely going to recommend that we 'start thinking about' a
> promotion. But then I discovered that he had done much I did not know about, as
> several developers (me, Alexander B, Georg B. Eric A, Michael F., ...) have done
> commits involving his patches. So I now think, 'why wait?' I am confident that
> he will start with whatever cautions he is given, with issues that are either
> trivial or that have been reviewed by others.

In case it's still needed, +1.

Georg