On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Friedrich Romstedt <fri...@gm...> wrote: > I feel very much honoured by this, it is a great belated Christmas > gift, so I like it very much that you speak up for me, but currently I > don't feel like a "core dev". Maybe, when matplotlib-filters > (formerly matplotlib-grayscale) is through and committed, maybe then > I'm confident enough. I'm curious about this project -- google doesn't reveal much. As for commit privileges, my usual standard is that the candidate has become a nuisance to the other developers. That is, they are contributing patches faster than we can review them :-) That is a bit tongue in cheek, but I do like to see several patches that reveal a significant understanding of mpl internals and compliance with our coding standards. Ben's handling of several 3D bugs certainly put him in this category in my view, as this is a particularly hairy part of the code and there were not many developers who were able to review his patches because he was one of the few experts on this part of the code, and handling 3D properly means you have a pretty good grasp of the 2D stack. Friedrich hasn't become a nuisance yet <wink>. When he does, I'll be happy to add him.... JDH