Hugo van Kemenade🎉 Please welcome our two newest Python core developers! 🎈🐍🎈
Sam Gross is the author of PEP 703 and leading the work to remove the GIL
Nikita Sobolev is the fourth most active contributor (since 2020) and was recently made a @ThePSF Fellow.
https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-sam-gross/44323
https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-nikita-sobolevn/44376
And just for fun I made a chart of the number of new core developers per year!
Vote to promote Sam Gross
I am nominating Sam Gross (@colesbury, GitHub) as a core developer. Sam single-handedly created the nogil 3.9 proof of concept, kept it alive with a 3.12 rebase, worked with the core team and the Steering Council to create a workable plan for making the GIL optional in Python. Towards that end, Sam joined the core team as a triager in late 2021. Since then, over 50 pull requests in his name got merged into CPython. Another 5 are open at the time of this writing. Sam’s experience with the inter...
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