4 This file is a running log of developers given permissions on SourceForge.
6 The purpose is to provide some institutional memory of who was given access
9 The first entry starts in April 2005. In keeping with the style of
10 Misc/NEWS, newer entries should be added to the top. Any markup should
11 be in the form of ReST. Entries should include the initials of the
12 project admin who made the change or granted access. Feel free to revise
13 the format to accommodate documentation needs as they arise.
15 Note, when giving new commit permissions, be sure to get a contributor
16 agreement from the committer. See http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/
17 for details. When the agreement is signed, please note it in this log.
23 - Brian Quinlan was given commit access on Jul 26 2010 by GFB,
24 for work related to PEP 3148.
26 - Reid Kleckner was given commit access on Jul 11 2010 by GFB,
27 for work on the py3k-jit branch, at suggestion of the Unladen
30 - Alexander Belopolsky was given commit access on May 25 2010
31 by MvL at suggestion of Mark Dickinson.
33 - Tim Golden was given commit access on April 21 2010 by MvL,
34 at suggestion of Michael Foord.
36 - Giampaolo Rodolà was given commit access on April 17 2010 by
37 MvL, at suggestion of R. David Murray.
39 - Jean-Paul Calderone was given commit access on April 6 2010 by
40 GFB, at suggestion of Michael Foord and others.
42 - Brian Curtin was given commit access on March 24 2010 by MvL.
44 - Florent Xicluna was given commit access on February 25 2010 by
45 MvL, based on Antoine Pitrou's recommendation.
47 - Dino Viehland was given SVN access on February 23 2010 by Brett
48 Cannon, for backporting tests from IronPython.
50 - Larry Hastings was given SVN access on February 22 2010 by
51 Andrew Kuchling, based on Brett Cannon's recommendation.
53 - Victor Stinner was given SVN access on January 30 2010 by MvL,
54 at recommendation by Mark Dickinson and Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
56 - Stefan Krah was given SVN access on January 5 2010 by GFB, at
57 suggestion of Mark Dickinson, for work on the decimal module.
59 - Doug Hellmann was given SVN access on September 19 2009 by GFB, at
60 suggestion of Jesse Noller, for documentation work.
62 - Ezio Melotti was given SVN access on June 7 2009 by GFB, for work on and
63 fixes to the documentation.
65 - Paul Kippes was given commit privileges at PyCon 2009 by BAC to work on 3to2.
67 - Ron DuPlain was given commit privileges at PyCon 2009 by BAC to work on 3to2.
69 - Several developers of alternative Python implementations where
70 given access for test suite and library adaptions by MvL:
71 Allison Randal (Parrot), Michael Foord (IronPython),
72 Jim Baker, Philip Jenvey, and Frank Wierzbicki (all Jython).
74 - R. David Murray was given SVN access on March 30 2009 by MvL, after
75 recommendation by BAC.
77 - Chris Withers was given SVN access on March 8 2009 by MvL,
78 after recommendation by GvR.
80 - Tarek Ziadé was given SVN access on December 21 2008 by NCN,
81 for maintenance of distutils.
83 - Hirokazu Yamamoto was given SVN access on August 12 2008 by MvL,
84 for contributions to the Windows build.
86 - Antoine Pitrou was given SVN access on July 16 2008, by recommendation
87 from GvR, for general contributions to Python.
89 - Jesse Noller was given SVN access on 16 June 2008 by GFB,
90 for work on the multiprocessing module.
92 - Gregor Lingl was given SVN access on 10 June 2008 by MvL,
93 for work on the turtle module.
95 - Robert Schuppenies was given SVN access on 21 May 2008 by MvL,
96 for GSoC contributions.
98 - Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel was given SVN access on 29 April 2008 by MvL,
99 for GSoC contributions.
101 - Heiko Weinen was given SVN access on 29 April 2008 by MvL,
102 for GSoC contributions.
104 - Jesus Cea was given SVN access on 24 April 2008 by MvL,
105 for maintenance of bsddb.
107 - Guilherme Polo was given SVN access on 24 April 2008 by MvL,
108 for GSoC contributions.
110 - Thomas Lee was given SVN access on 21 April 2008 by NCN,
111 for work on branches (ast/optimizer related).
113 - Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven was given SVN access on 12 April 2008
114 by GFB, for documentation work.
116 - Josiah Carlson was given SVN access on 26 March 2008 by GFB,
117 for work on asyncore/asynchat.
119 - Benjamin Peterson was given SVN access on 25 March 2008 by GFB,
122 - Jerry Seutter was given SVN access on 20 March 2008 by BAC, for
123 general contributions to Python.
125 - Jeff Rush was given SVN access on 18 March 2008 by AMK, for Distutils work.
127 - David Wolever was given SVN access on 17 March 2008 by MvL,
130 - Trent Nelson was given SVN access on 17 March 2008 by MvL,
131 for general contributions to Python.
133 - Mark Dickinson was given SVN access on 6 January 2008 by Facundo
134 Batista for his work on mathemathics and number related issues.
136 - Amaury Forgeot d'Arc was given SVN access on 9 November 2007 by MvL,
137 for general contributions to Python.
139 - Christian Heimes was given SVN access on 31 October 2007 by MvL,
140 for general contributions to Python.
142 - Chris Monson was given SVN access on 20 October 2007 by NCN,
143 for his work on editing PEPs.
145 - Bill Janssen was given SVN access on 28 August 2007 by NCN,
146 for his work on the SSL module and other things related to (SSL) sockets.
148 - Jeffrey Yasskin was given SVN access on 9 August 2007 by NCN,
149 for his work on PEPs and other general patches.
151 - Mark Summerfield was given SVN access on 1 August 2007 by GFB,
152 for work on documentation.
154 - Armin Ronacher was given SVN access on 23 July 2007 by GFB,
155 for work on the documentation toolset. He now maintains the
158 - Senthil Kumaran was given SVN access on 16 June 2007 by MvL,
159 for his Summer-of-Code project, mentored by Skip Montanaro.
161 - Alexandre Vassalotti was given SVN access on 21 May 2007 by MvL,
162 for his Summer-of-Code project, mentored by Brett Cannon.
164 - Travis Oliphant was given SVN access on 17 Apr 2007 by MvL,
165 for implementing the extended buffer protocol.
167 - Ziga Seilnacht was given SVN access on 09 Mar 2007 by MvL,
168 for general maintenance.
170 - Pete Shinners was given SVN access on 04 Mar 2007 by NCN,
171 for PEP 3101 work in the sandbox.
173 - Pat Maupin and Eric V. Smith were given SVN access on 28 Feb 2007 by NCN,
174 for PEP 3101 work in the sandbox.
176 - Steven Bethard (SF name "bediviere") added to the SourceForge Python
177 project 26 Feb 2007, by NCN, as a tracker tech.
179 - Josiah Carlson (SF name "josiahcarlson") added to the SourceForge Python
180 project 06 Jan 2007, by NCN, as a tracker tech. He will maintain asyncore.
182 - Collin Winter was given SVN access on 05 Jan 2007 by NCN, for PEP
185 - Lars Gustaebel was given SVN access on 20 Dec 2006 by NCN, for tarfile.py
188 - 2006 Summer of Code entries: SoC developers are expected to work
189 primarily in nondist/sandbox or on a branch of their own, and will
190 have their work reviewed before changes are accepted into the trunk.
192 - Matt Fleming was added on 25 May 2006 by AMK; he'll be working on
193 enhancing the Python debugger.
195 - Jackilyn Hoxworth was added on 25 May 2006 by AMK; she'll be adding logging
196 to the standard library.
198 - Mateusz Rukowicz was added on 30 May 2006 by AMK; he'll be
199 translating the decimal module into C.
201 - SVN access granted to the "Need for Speed" Iceland sprint attendees,
202 between May 17 and 21, 2006, by Tim Peters. All work is to be done
203 in new sandbox projects or on new branches, with merging to the
218 - Steven Bethard was given SVN access on 27 Apr 2006 by DJG, for PEP
221 - Talin was given SVN access on 27 Apr 2006 by DJG, for PEP update
224 - George Yoshida (SF name "quiver") added to the SourceForge Python
225 project 14 Apr 2006, by Tim Peters, as a tracker admin. See
226 contemporaneous python-checkins thread with the unlikely Subject:
228 r45329 - python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
230 - Ronald Oussoren was given SVN access on 3 Mar 2006 by NCN, for Mac
233 - Bob Ippolito was given SVN access on 2 Mar 2006 by NCN, for Mac
236 - Nick Coghlan requested CVS access so he could update his PEP directly.
237 Granted by GvR on 16 Oct 2005.
239 - Added two new developers for the Summer of Code project. 8 July 2005
240 by RDH. Andrew Kuchling will be mentoring Gregory K Johnson for a
241 project to enhance mailbox. Brett Cannon requested access for Flovis
242 Bruynooghe (sirolf) to work on pstats, profile, and hotshot. Both users
243 are expected to work primarily in nondist/sandbox and have their work
244 reviewed before making updates to active code.
246 - Georg Brandl was given SF tracker permissions on 28 May 2005
247 by RDH. Since the beginning of 2005, he has been active in discussions
248 on python-dev and has submitted a dozen patch reviews. The permissions
249 add the ability to change tracker status and to attach patches. On
250 3 June 2005, this was expanded by RDH to include checkin permissions.
252 - Terry Reedy was given SF tracker permissions on 7 Apr 2005 by RDH.
254 - Nick Coghlan was given SF tracker permissions on 5 Apr 2005 by RDH.
255 For several months, he has been active in reviewing and contributing
256 patches. The added permissions give him greater flexibility in
257 working with the tracker.
259 - Eric Price was made a developer on 2 May 2003 by TGP. This was
260 specifically to work on the new ``decimal`` package, which lived in
261 ``nondist/sandbox/decimal/`` at the time.
263 - Eric S. Raymond was made a developer on 2 Jul 2000 by TGP, for general
264 library work. His request is archived here:
266 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-July/005314.html
269 Permissions Dropped on Request
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272 - Roy Smith, Matt Fleming and Richard Emslie sent drop requests.
275 - Per note from Andrew Kuchling, the permissions for Gregory K Johnson
276 and the Summer Of Code project are no longer needed. 4 Aug 2008 GFB
278 - Per note from Andrew Kuchling, the permissions for Gregory K Johnson
279 and the Summer Of Code project are no longer needed. AMK will make
280 any future checkins directly. 16 Oct 2005 RDH
282 - Johannes Gijsbers sent a drop request. 27 July 2005 RDH
284 - Flovis Bruynooghe sent a drop request. 14 July 2005 RDH
286 - Paul Prescod sent a drop request. 30 Apr 2005 RDH
288 - Finn Bock sent a drop request. 13 Apr 2005 RDH
290 - Eric Price sent a drop request. 10 Apr 2005 RDH
292 - Irmen de Jong requested dropping CVS access while keeping tracker
293 access. 10 Apr 2005 RDH
295 - Moshe Zadka and Ken Manheimer sent drop requests. 8 Apr 2005 by RDH
297 - Steve Holden, Gerhard Haring, and David Cole sent email stating that
298 they no longer use their access. 7 Apr 2005 RDH
301 Permissions Dropped after Loss of Contact
302 -----------------------------------------
304 - Several unsuccessful efforts were made to contact Charles G Waldman.
305 Removed on 8 Apr 2005 by RDH.
308 Initials of Project Admins
309 --------------------------
316 MvL: Martin v. Loewis
317 GvR: Guido van Rossum
318 RDH: Raymond Hettinger