Re: [Jython-dev] Committer nomination - James Mudd

[Jim B. <jim...@py...>]

+1 — James Mudd's commits and overall work on Jython have been impactful
and of high quality. His nomination is long overdue in my opinion.

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 6:20 AM, Stefan Richthofer <
ste...@gm...> wrote:

> Hello Jython devs,
>
> I would like to nominate James Mudd to become a Jython committer.
>
> James is working with Jython since several years and he is frequently
> contributing since about two years. If you take a look at the commit
> history, a siginficant amount of recent contributions came from him.
> On the issue tracker he frequently tracks down the source of issues
> quickly and reliably. Often enough I had a look at some issue and James had
> already posted an idea or even an explanation for the cause. Most recently
> I remember #2672 "Integer formatting emits two minus signs with -2^31". I
> also remember how we collaborated on the super challenging #2536 "deadlocks
> in regrtests due to StackOverflowError in finally block". He is friendly,
> easy to work with and discussions with him are usually very helpful.
> I have met him personally at Diamond Lightsource and worked with him for
> two days on Jython and JyNI. At Diamond Lightsource he has been using
> Jython in a production environment for several years. In his own words:
>
> "I would consider myself primarily a Java developer using Python where it
> fits best. I have enjoyed contributing to Jython in my spare time,
> primarily because it makes you take a deep look at areas of Java you
> normally don’t look too closely at. The bugs I have enjoyed fixing the most
> have been, #2399 which turned out to be caused by a change in the algorithm
> used by the JVM to implement sorting of collections, and #2639 which was a
> bug in comparing Java and Python collections, it required quite a bit of
> work as the equality concepts offered by the two languages differ slightly
> but making the interoperability of Java and Python is what makes Jython
> such an interesting project. I am also interested in JyNI as potentially
> this can bring powerful libraries such as NumPy and SciPy to Jython and
> therefore Java."
>
>
> I asked James to write a brief bio:
>
> "I graduated Warwick University UK with a PhD in Physics in 2014. Since
> then I have worked at Diamond Light Source (DLS), initially in a science
> role but quickly moved into a full-time software position. I am now a
> senior software engineer working on the GDA (Generic Data Acquisition)
> software, used at DLS for control and automation of user experiments. GDA
> is a Java application with a client server architecture, it embeds Jython
> as a way to automate complex experiments using scripting, this is how I
> first became interested in Jython."
>
>
> - Stefan
>
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