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1Developer Log
2=============
3
4This file is a running log of developers given permissions on SourceForge.
5
6The purpose is to provide some institutional memory of who was given access
7and why.
8
9The first entry starts in April 2005.  In keeping with the style of
10Misc/NEWS, newer entries should be added to the top.  Any markup should
11be in the form of ReST.  Entries should include the initials of the
12project admin who made the change or granted access.  Feel free to revise
13the format to accommodate documentation needs as they arise.
14
15Note, when giving new commit permissions, be sure to get a contributor
16agreement from the committer.  See http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/
17for details.  When the agreement is signed, please note it in this log.
18
19This file is encoded in UTF-8.  If the usual form for a name is not in
20a Latin or extended Latin alphabet, make sure to include an ASCII
21transliteration too.
22
23Permissions History
24-------------------
25
26- David Malcolm was given commit access on Oct 27 2010 by GFB,
27  at recommendation by Antoine Pitrou and Raymond Hettinger.
28
29- Tal Einat was given commit access on Oct 4 2010 by MvL,
30  for improving IDLE.
31
32- Łukasz Langa was given commit access on Sep 08 2010 by GFB,
33  at suggestion of Antoine Pitrou, for general bug fixing.
34
35- Daniel Stutzbach was given commit access on Aug 22 2010 by MvL,
36  for general bug fixing.
37
38- Ask Solem was given commit access on Aug 17 2010 by MvL,
39  on recommendation by Jesse Noller, for work on the multiprocessing
40  library.
41
42- George Boutsioukis was given commit access on Aug 10 2010
43  by MvL, for work on 2to3.
44
45- Éric Araujo was given commit access on Aug 10 2010 by BAC,
46  at suggestion of Tarek Ziadé.
47
48- Terry Reedy was given commit access on Aug 04 2010 by MvL,
49  at suggestion of Nick Coghlan.
50
51- Brian Quinlan was given commit access on Jul 26 2010 by GFB,
52  for work related to PEP 3148.
53
54- Reid Kleckner was given commit access on Jul 11 2010 by GFB,
55  for work on the py3k-jit branch, at suggestion of the Unladen
56  Swallow team.
57
58- Alexander Belopolsky was given commit access on May 25 2010
59  by MvL at suggestion of Mark Dickinson.
60
61- Tim Golden was given commit access on April 21 2010 by MvL,
62  at suggestion of Michael Foord.
63
64- Giampaolo Rodolà was given commit access on April 17 2010 by
65  MvL, at suggestion of R. David Murray.
66
67- Jean-Paul Calderone was given commit access on April 6 2010 by
68  GFB, at suggestion of Michael Foord and others.
69
70- Brian Curtin was given commit access on March 24 2010 by MvL.
71
72- Florent Xicluna was given commit access on February 25 2010 by
73  MvL, based on Antoine Pitrou's recommendation.
74
75- Dino Viehland was given SVN access on February 23 2010 by Brett
76  Cannon, for backporting tests from IronPython.
77
78- Larry Hastings was given SVN access on February 22 2010 by
79  Andrew Kuchling, based on Brett Cannon's recommendation.
80
81- Victor Stinner was given SVN access on January 30 2010 by MvL,
82  at recommendation by Mark Dickinson and Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
83
84- Stefan Krah was given SVN access on January 5 2010 by GFB, at
85  suggestion of Mark Dickinson, for work on the decimal module.
86
87- Doug Hellmann was given SVN access on September 19 2009 by GFB, at
88  suggestion of Jesse Noller, for documentation work.
89
90- Ezio Melotti was given SVN access on June 7 2009 by GFB, for work on and
91  fixes to the documentation.
92
93- Paul Kippes was given commit privileges at PyCon 2009 by BAC to work on 3to2.
94
95- Ron DuPlain was given commit privileges at PyCon 2009 by BAC to work on 3to2.
96
97- Several developers of alternative Python implementations where
98  given access for test suite and library adaptions by MvL:
99  Allison Randal (Parrot), Michael Foord (IronPython),
100  Jim Baker, Philip Jenvey, and Frank Wierzbicki (all Jython).
101
102- R. David Murray was given SVN access on March 30 2009 by MvL, after
103  recommendation by BAC.
104
105- Chris Withers was given SVN access on March 8 2009 by MvL,
106  after recommendation by GvR.
107
108- Tarek Ziadé was given SVN access on December 21 2008 by NCN,
109  for maintenance of distutils.
110
111- Hirokazu Yamamoto was given SVN access on August 12 2008 by MvL,
112  for contributions to the Windows build.
113
114- Antoine Pitrou was given SVN access on July 16 2008, by recommendation
115  from GvR, for general contributions to Python.
116
117- Jesse Noller was given SVN access on 16 June 2008 by GFB,
118  for work on the multiprocessing module.
119
120- Gregor Lingl was given SVN access on 10 June 2008 by MvL,
121  for work on the turtle module.
122
123- Robert Schuppenies was given SVN access on 21 May 2008 by MvL,
124  for GSoC contributions.
125
126- Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel was given SVN access on 29 April 2008 by MvL,
127  for GSoC contributions.
128
129- Heiko Weinen was given SVN access on 29 April 2008 by MvL,
130  for GSoC contributions.
131
132- Jesus Cea was given SVN access on 24 April 2008 by MvL,
133  for maintenance of bsddb.
134
135- Guilherme Polo was given SVN access on 24 April 2008 by MvL,
136  for GSoC contributions.
137
138- Thomas Lee was given SVN access on 21 April 2008 by NCN,
139  for work on branches (ast/optimizer related).
140
141- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven was given SVN access on 12 April 2008
142  by GFB, for documentation work.
143
144- Josiah Carlson was given SVN access on 26 March 2008 by GFB,
145  for work on asyncore/asynchat.
146
147- Benjamin Peterson was given SVN access on 25 March 2008 by GFB,
148  for bug triage work.
149
150- Jerry Seutter was given SVN access on 20 March 2008 by BAC, for
151  general contributions to Python.
152
153- Jeff Rush was given SVN access on 18 March 2008 by AMK, for Distutils work.
154
155- David Wolever was given SVN access on 17 March 2008 by MvL,
156  for 2to3 work.
157
158- Trent Nelson was given SVN access on 17 March 2008 by MvL,
159  for general contributions to Python.
160
161- Mark Dickinson was given SVN access on 6 January 2008 by Facundo
162  Batista for his work on mathematics and number related issues.
163
164- Amaury Forgeot d'Arc was given SVN access on 9 November 2007 by MvL,
165  for general contributions to Python.
166
167- Christian Heimes was given SVN access on 31 October 2007 by MvL,
168  for general contributions to Python.
169
170- Chris Monson was given SVN access on 20 October 2007 by NCN,
171  for his work on editing PEPs.
172
173- Bill Janssen was given SVN access on 28 August 2007 by NCN,
174  for his work on the SSL module and other things related to (SSL) sockets.
175
176- Jeffrey Yasskin was given SVN access on 9 August 2007 by NCN,
177  for his work on PEPs and other general patches.
178
179- Mark Summerfield was given SVN access on 1 August 2007 by GFB,
180  for work on documentation.
181
182- Armin Ronacher was given SVN access on 23 July 2007 by GFB,
183  for work on the documentation toolset.  He now maintains the
184  ast module.
185
186- Senthil Kumaran was given SVN access on 16 June 2007 by MvL,
187  for his Summer-of-Code project, mentored by Skip Montanaro.
188
189- Alexandre Vassalotti was given SVN access on 21 May 2007 by MvL,
190  for his Summer-of-Code project, mentored by Brett Cannon.
191
192- Travis Oliphant was given SVN access on 17 Apr 2007 by MvL,
193  for implementing the extended buffer protocol.
194
195- Ziga Seilnacht was given SVN access on 09 Mar 2007 by MvL,
196  for general maintenance.
197
198- Pete Shinners was given SVN access on 04 Mar 2007 by NCN,
199  for PEP 3101 work in the sandbox.
200
201- Pat Maupin and Eric V. Smith were given SVN access on 28 Feb 2007 by NCN,
202  for PEP 3101 work in the sandbox.
203
204- Steven Bethard (SF name "bediviere") added to the SourceForge Python
205  project 26 Feb 2007, by NCN, as a tracker tech.
206
207- Josiah Carlson (SF name "josiahcarlson") added to the SourceForge Python
208  project 06 Jan 2007, by NCN, as a tracker tech.  He will maintain asyncore.
209
210- Collin Winter was given SVN access on 05 Jan 2007 by NCN, for PEP
211  update access.
212
213- Lars Gustaebel was given SVN access on 20 Dec 2006 by NCN, for tarfile.py
214  related work.
215
216- 2006 Summer of Code entries: SoC developers are expected to work
217  primarily in nondist/sandbox or on a branch of their own, and will
218  have their work reviewed before changes are accepted into the trunk.
219
220  - Matt Fleming was added on 25 May 2006 by AMK; he'll be working on
221    enhancing the Python debugger.
222
223  - Jackilyn Hoxworth was added on 25 May 2006 by AMK; she'll be adding logging
224    to the standard library.
225
226  - Mateusz Rukowicz was added on 30 May 2006 by AMK; he'll be
227    translating the decimal module into C.
228
229- SVN access granted to the "Need for Speed" Iceland sprint attendees,
230  between May 17 and 21, 2006, by Tim Peters.  All work is to be done
231  in new sandbox projects or on new branches, with merging to the
232  trunk as approved:
233
234  Andrew Dalke
235  Christian Tismer
236  Jack Diederich
237  John Benediktsson
238  Kristján V. Jónsson
239  Martin Blais
240  Richard Emslie
241  Richard Jones
242  Runar Petursson
243  Steve Holden
244  Richard M. Tew
245
246- Steven Bethard was given SVN access on 27 Apr 2006 by DJG, for PEP
247  update access.
248
249- Talin was given SVN access on 27 Apr 2006 by DJG, for PEP update
250  access.
251
252- George Yoshida (SF name "quiver") added to the SourceForge Python
253  project 14 Apr 2006, by Tim Peters, as a tracker admin.  See
254  contemporaneous python-checkins thread with the unlikely Subject:
255
256      r45329 - python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
257
258- Ronald Oussoren was given SVN access on 3 Mar 2006 by NCN, for Mac
259  related work.
260
261- Bob Ippolito was given SVN access on 2 Mar 2006 by NCN, for Mac
262  related work.
263
264- Nick Coghlan requested CVS access so he could update his PEP directly.
265  Granted by GvR on 16 Oct 2005.
266
267- Added two new developers for the Summer of Code project. 8 July 2005
268  by RDH.  Andrew Kuchling will be mentoring Gregory K Johnson for a
269  project to enhance mailbox.  Brett Cannon requested access for Flovis
270  Bruynooghe (sirolf) to work on pstats, profile, and hotshot.  Both users
271  are expected to work primarily in nondist/sandbox and have their work
272  reviewed before making updates to active code.
273
274- Georg Brandl was given SF tracker permissions on 28 May 2005
275  by RDH.  Since the beginning of 2005, he has been active in discussions
276  on python-dev and has submitted a dozen patch reviews.  The permissions
277  add the ability to change tracker status and to attach patches.  On
278  3 June 2005, this was expanded by RDH to include checkin permissions.
279
280- Terry Reedy was given SF tracker permissions on 7 Apr 2005 by RDH.
281
282- Nick Coghlan was given SF tracker permissions on 5 Apr 2005 by RDH.
283  For several months, he has been active in reviewing and contributing
284  patches.  The added permissions give him greater flexibility in
285  working with the tracker.
286
287- Eric Price was made a developer on 2 May 2003 by TGP.  This was
288  specifically to work on the new ``decimal`` package, which lived in
289  ``nondist/sandbox/decimal/`` at the time.
290
291- Eric S. Raymond was made a developer on 2 Jul 2000 by TGP, for general
292  library work.  His request is archived here:
293
294      http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-July/005314.html
295
296
297Permissions Dropped on Request
298------------------------------
299
300- Roy Smith, Matt Fleming and Richard Emslie sent drop requests.
301  4 Aug 2008 GFB
302
303- Per note from Andrew Kuchling, the permissions for Gregory K Johnson
304  and the Summer Of Code project are no longer needed.  4 Aug 2008 GFB
305
306- Per note from Andrew Kuchling, the permissions for Gregory K Johnson
307  and the Summer Of Code project are no longer needed.  AMK will make
308  any future checkins directly.  16 Oct 2005 RDH
309
310- Johannes Gijsbers sent a drop request.  27 July 2005 RDH
311
312- Flovis Bruynooghe sent a drop request.  14 July 2005 RDH
313
314- Paul Prescod sent a drop request.  30 Apr 2005 RDH
315
316- Finn Bock sent a drop request.  13 Apr 2005 RDH
317
318- Eric Price sent a drop request.  10 Apr 2005 RDH
319
320- Irmen de Jong requested dropping CVS access while keeping tracker
321  access.  10 Apr 2005 RDH
322
323- Moshe Zadka and Ken Manheimer sent drop requests.  8 Apr 2005 by RDH
324
325- Steve Holden, Gerhard Haring, and David Cole sent email stating that
326  they no longer use their access.   7 Apr 2005 RDH
327
328
329Permissions Dropped after Loss of Contact
330-----------------------------------------
331
332- Several unsuccessful efforts were made to contact Charles G Waldman.
333  Removed on 8 Apr 2005 by RDH.
334
335
336Initials of Project Admins
337--------------------------
338
339TGP:  Tim Peters
340GFB:  Georg Brandl
341BAC:  Brett Cannon
342NCN:  Neal Norwitz
343DJG:  David Goodger
344MvL:  Martin v. Loewis
345GvR:  Guido van Rossum
346RDH:  Raymond Hettinger
347