[python-committers] Promote Xiang Zhang as a core developer

[Brett Cannon]

I thought someone asked Xiang if he wanted to be a core dev during the core
sprints in September and he turned down the offer?

On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 at 04:10 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Last months, I noticed that Xiang Zhang is very active on the bug
> tracker and propose many enhancements and bug fixes. He contributes to
> Python code, but also to the C code (a rare skill nowadays). Slowly,
> he understood how to produce "good" patches, the CPython workflow,
> etc. I think that his contributions are now good enough to give him
> the commit bit.
>
> As I did previously (for Xavier), I also propose to be his mentor the
> first month: request him to ask me before pushing anything, help him
> with Mercurial, branches, etc. So I can help to avoid simple mistakes
> and to not break the buildbot too often :-)
>
> Maybe Serhiy Storchaka and/or Yury Selivanov may want to co-mentor
> Xiang? Serhiy reviewed many of Xiang's patches recently.
>
> Victor
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