Vote to promote Bénédikt Tran (picnixz)

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Hi,

I propose to promote Bénédikt Tran (picnixz on GitHub) as a core developer. I have been working closely with him for a few months and it’s always a pleasure to work with him. He’s eager to get feedback and listen to feedback (don’t reproduce the same mistakes).

Bénédikt is quite active in bug triage (he became a triager since July).

He got 84 changes merged into the main branch. Over the last 12 months, he is the #9 most active contributor in terms of commits.

He worked on various parts of Python. Examples:

  • Add platform.invalidate_caches().
  • uuid: add support for UUID version 8 (RFC 9562).
  • Improve performances of fnmatch.translate: 1.71x faster overall.
  • Allow to show specialized bytecode via dis CLI; and make dis functions render positions on demand.
  • Improve SyntaxError message for invalid type parameters expressions.
  • Convert the ncurses C extension to the multiphase API and to heap types.
  • Improve test coverage of codecs C API (add tests).
  • Fix use-after-free on fut->fut_callback0 due to an evil callback’s __eq__ in asyncio.
  • Fix UBSan failure in unicodeobject.c:find_first_nonascii().

Outside CPython, he is currently a maintainer of Sphinx.

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A big +1 from me. I’ve worked with Bénédikt on a variety of tasks, and it has always been a positive experience. He is not only an expert in multiple areas of CPython, but also a very kind person, which makes communication with him much easier — something I really value.

I would also like to highlight that Bénédikt has dedicated a significant amount of time to conducting thorough code reviews, which are incredibly helpful.

I’m especially grateful that Bénédikt took the initiative to work on maintaining Doc/data/refcounts.dat: Improve and maintain `Doc/data/refcounts.dat` · Issue #127443 · python/cpython · GitHub, a task that requires a lot of hard work and patience.

I look forward to seeing Bénédikt in the core team!

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Another +1 from me. I’ve watched his interactions the past several months and I’ve been impressed by his thoughtfulness and attention to detail.

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I’ve worked with Bénédikt on several issues and PRs, and it has been a pleasure every time. He has a great attention to detail, his reviews are thorough and of high quality; I trust his judgement. He’s been doing a fantastic job triaging our issue backlog. I very much look forward to having him on the team!

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The SC discussed Bénédikt’s promotion today and does not veto.
Thank you for all your patience during the long long holidays :slight_smile:

Congratulations Bénédikt!

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Thank you everyone for the support and trust! I am honored and proud to be part of the team. I would like to specifically thank @Jelle for my nomination as a triager, @vstinner for this nomination and @ambv for granting me the necessary privileges.

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