[python-committers] Promote Mark Sapiro and Abhilash Raj as core developers

[Barry Warsaw]

If you like the way mail.python.org and Mailman (both 2 and 3) Just Work, and are about as reliable as any service can be, we have our wonderful postmasters to thank.  Mark has been a postmaster for years and is currently maintaining GNU Mailman, both as a project and as a service on mpo.  Abhilash maintains the GNU Mailman 3 branch, has been project leader since I retired in that role back in 2017, and also maintains the Mailman 3 instance on mail.python.org.

More than that, because of their roles as Mailman developers, they have a deep knowledge of email in general, and in the email package in particular.  As I rarely dabble in the email package these days, and RDM --who did a fantastic job of implementing the new APIs and features in email for Python 3— has also scaled back his involvement, it means that the email package doesn’t get much attention these days.  Both Mark and Abhilash have an interest in helping to maintain the email package moving forward, and both are eminently qualified to do so.

I have worked with both of them for many many years, and I have the utmost respect for their technical and social skills, their understanding of Python processes, and their love of the Python language and community.  I've sprinted with them at many Pycons, until I scaled back my involvement with Mailman.  Both are here sprinting at Pycon 2019.

Therefore, with their permission, I propose extending core developer rights to both Mark and Abhilash.

As per PEP 13, I plan on opening a vote on Discourse next week (once I kind of recover from Pycon) for each developer.

Cheers,
-Barry


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