[python-committers] Charles-François Natali (neologix)

Sun May 15 10:31:37 CEST 2011

Hi,
This guy rocks! He understood and fixed many subtle bugs like race
conditions recently. Example from the NEWS of Python 3.3:
- Issue #12060: Use sig_atomic_t type and volatile keyword in the signal
 module. Patch written by Charles-François Natali.
- Issue #11849: Make it more likely for the system allocator to release
 free()d memory arenas on glibc-based systems. Patch by
Charles-François
 Natali.
- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the
PyGILState_*
 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5.
Patch
 by Charles-François Natali.
- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was
interrupted
 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS
X. Patch
 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
- Issue #11811: ssl.get_server_certificate() is now IPv6-compatible.
Patch
 by Charles-François Natali.	
- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when
terminating
 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is
being
 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
- Issue #11757: select.select() now raises ValueError when a negative
timeout
 is passed (previously, a select.error with EINVAL would be raised).
Patch
 by Charles-François Natali.
etc.
I would to propose him to commit grant. What do you think?
Victor