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

[Stefan R. <ste...@gm...>]

The votes so far (Jeff and Frank replied privately, so I'm sharing this
now):

Jeff Allen:
+1 from me. Always thoughtful work, and patient when subject to demanding
review. Responds helpfully to issues too.

Frank Wierzbicky:
+1 for me as well

Jim Baker:
+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.


That's already the majority of currently active core developers and I am
happy to announce that Frank decided to accept the nomination.
Congratulations to James and welcome!
There are some steps to do now that we are currently figuring out. It
changed a bit since the last committer nomination.


Cheers

-Stefan


2018-08-02 16:13 GMT+02:00 Jim Baker <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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