# Vote to promote Nathan Goldbaum **URL:** \ **Category:** Committers\ **Tags:** promotion\ **Created:** [August 25, 2026, 1:31am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-nathan-goldbaum/108739 "2026-08-25T01:31:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![emmatyping](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/emmatyping/32/36516_2.png) [@emmatyping](https://discuss.python.org/u/emmatyping)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 1:31am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-nathan-goldbaum/108739/1 "2026-08-25T01:31:30Z")
I would like to nominate Nathan Goldbaum (@ngoldbaum here and on GitHub) to become a core developer. Nathan has done a truly monumental amount of work in the community to aid in the adoption of free-threaded Python, such as maintaining [pytest-run-parallel](https://github.com/Quansight-Labs/pytest-run-parallel) and the [Python Free-Threading Guide](https://py-free-threading.github.io/). On top of this, he has contributed to free-threading porting efforts directly for dozens of projects, such as NumPy and PyO3, both of which he is now a maintainer on. I believe Nathan’s experience working on these efforts provides a unique community-grounded perspective which would be a valuable addition to the team. Nathan has also been active on the project directly, being involved [in 90 issues](https://github.com/search?q=involves%3Angoldbaum+org%3Apython+org%3Apsf&type=issues), and [64 PRs](https://github.com/search?q=involves%3Angoldbaum+org%3Apython+org%3Apsf+is%3Amerged&type=pullrequests). He has co-authored [PEP 803, adding a stable ABI for free-threaded builds](https://peps.python.org/pep-0803/), and has caught and fixed several bugs in the implementation thereof, e.g. [#149900](https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/149900). He has also reviewed several other major PRs such as [the implementation of PEP 820, the PySlot API](https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/149055). Finally, Nathan is applying his experience with NumPy and other scientific Python projects as part of exploring improvements to the buffer protocol. These improvements include expressing custom data types and mutability XOR sharing semantics, which [he presented on at the language summit this year](https://ep2026.europython.eu/language-summit/#improving-the-python-buffer-protocol--nathan-goldbaum). Nathan has been a pleasure to work with, and I am sure he will make a great addition to the core developer team. _Poll ([view on site](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-nathan-goldbaum/108739/1))_ ---
**Author:** ![ZeroIntensity](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/zerointensity/32/10639_2.png) [@ZeroIntensity](https://discuss.python.org/u/ZeroIntensity)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 1:41am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-nathan-goldbaum/108739/2 "2026-08-25T01:41:47Z")
Huge +1 from me. I’ve had nothing but positive interactions with Nathan, and his work on contributing free-threading support to the ecosystem is one of the primary reasons that the project is progressing so quickly. ---
**Author:** ![willingc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/willingc/32/20_2.png) [@willingc](https://discuss.python.org/u/willingc)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2026, 12:45am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-nathan-goldbaum/108739/3 "2026-08-27T00:45:20Z")
Huge +1 from me. Nathan is delightful to work with. He also has a depth of knowledge about Scientific Python and HPC. ---
**Author:** ![ngoldbaum](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/ngoldbaum/32/12276_2.png) [@ngoldbaum](https://discuss.python.org/u/ngoldbaum)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2026, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-nathan-goldbaum/108739/4 "2026-09-01T16:33:35Z")
Thank you so much for the literal vote of confidence! I’m very excited to continue improving CPython and the Python ecosystem for years to come. ---
**Author:** ![encukou](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/encukou/32/2461_2.png) [@encukou](https://discuss.python.org/u/encukou)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2026, 6:16pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-nathan-goldbaum/108739/5 "2026-09-01T18:16:18Z")
The SC did not veto the promotion. Nathan is all set up now. Welcome to the team, Nathan!