# Vote to promote Barney Gale **URL:** \ **Category:** Committers\ **Tags:** promotion\ **Created:** [March 13, 2023, 8:05pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-barney-gale/24801 "2023-03-13T20:05:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![steve.dower](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/steve.dower/32/56_2.png) [@steve.dower](https://discuss.python.org/u/steve.dower)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 8:05pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-barney-gale/24801/1 "2023-03-13T20:05:31Z")
I am nominating Barney Gale (@barneygale, [and on GitHub](https://github.com/barneygale)) as a core developer. Barney has been contributing primarily towards pathlib for a number of years, and [volunteered](https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/BRIL545G5KMWYJRJ327YPFOTO4IJONMP/) about a year ago to become maintainer. Antoine was supportive, and since then I’ve been making sure Barney’s contributions are at core-dev levels of care, awareness, and stability. Last week I casually asked him to merge his own PR, as I’d completely forgotten that he wasn’t a committer, so I can’t really argue that he’s _not_ ready! Most of Barney’s [contributions](https://github.com/python/cpython/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+author%3Abarneygale+) have been towards pathlib, as expected, and recently he’s been closing a number of very weird edge cases in path parsing and combining, as well as optimisations to runtime performance and user subclassing. None of these are easy to decide on, and all require deep empathy for how the code is intended to be used and how it likely has been used. Most of the time, Barney’s initial proposals have ended up being the final implementation, and he’s shown willingness to ask questions before diving into something he’s not as certain about. I would be quite happy to have him as part of the team, and officially titled as our current `pathlib` maintainer/expert. _Poll ([view on site](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-barney-gale/24801/1))_ ---
**Author:** ![guido](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/guido/32/21_2.png) [@guido](https://discuss.python.org/u/guido)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 8:11pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-barney-gale/24801/2 "2023-03-13T20:11:56Z")
I agree that Barney’s work has been excellent and support him joining as a core dev. I do hope the promotion (and his mentors!) will encourage him to spread his attention to other areas. I’m sure there are many areas where his attention to detail and stick-to-it-iveness would be welcome. ---
**Author:** ![steve.dower](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/steve.dower/32/56_2.png) [@steve.dower](https://discuss.python.org/u/steve.dower)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 8:14pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-barney-gale/24801/3 "2023-03-13T20:14:15Z")
I guess I should add that he expressed an interest in urllib as well. I haven’t seen any work there myself, but maybe others have? We could certainly do with it though, so I’ll encourage it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AlexWaygood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/alexwaygood/32/4722_2.png) [@AlexWaygood](https://discuss.python.org/u/AlexWaygood)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 6:35pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-barney-gale/24801/4 "2023-03-14T18:35:20Z")
This makes me sad… I’d hoped _I_ could be the one to nominate Barney 😀 Barney has contributed a huge amount towards pathlib in the last few years, shows no sign of slowing down, and somehow manages to be the nicest person on the internet at the same time. His nomination has my full support. ---
**Author:** ![brettcannon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/brettcannon/32/34895_2.png) [@brettcannon](https://discuss.python.org/u/brettcannon)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 6:36pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-barney-gale/24801/5 "2023-03-14T18:36:39Z")
> [@AlexWaygood](#): > > This makes me sad… I’d hoped _I_ could be the one to nominate Barney 😀 Get in line. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![steve.dower](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/steve.dower/32/56_2.png) [@steve.dower](https://discuss.python.org/u/steve.dower)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 11:43am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-barney-gale/24801/6 "2023-03-20T11:43:46Z")
The poll has closed and I’ve emailed the steering council with the official proposal. ---
**Author:** ![brettcannon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/brettcannon/32/34895_2.png) [@brettcannon](https://discuss.python.org/u/brettcannon)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2023, 7:25pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-barney-gale/24801/7 "2023-03-21T19:25:35Z")
The SC approves of Barney’s promotion, so I will start the process of getting Barney their commit rights! ---
**Author:** ![barneygale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/barneygale/32/1882_2.png) [@barneygale](https://discuss.python.org/u/barneygale)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 1:28am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-barney-gale/24801/8 "2023-03-22T01:28:01Z")
Thank you so much, everyone. I’ll give it my best! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/python1/original/1X/3aff56846ebe57781a163dfc748fd1417119d8ab.png) [@system](https://discuss.python.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2024, 8:05pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-barney-gale/24801/9 "2024-03-12T20:05:49Z")
This topic was automatically closed after 365 days. New replies are no longer allowed.