What is a Python Core Developer?

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Being a Python core developer means holding commit rights and responsibility for about 17 repositories, with current membership at 89 core developers for a language of ~7 million users. Expect thousands of emails, more than 600 open pull requests at a time, and review work in a project that has seen ~65,000 PRs since the GitHub migration and ~5,200 merges during busy periods. Rely on the dev guide, run tests and builds, mentor newcomers, and accept that merged changes can break things and require fixes.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:48Welcome
3. 1:04Everyone uses Python
4. 1:48Who am I now
5. 3:13Why this talk
6. 3:39The Open Source Conversion Funnel
7. 4:41My Journey
8. 5:46What is Python Core Developer
9. 6:16Perks
10. 6:45Responsibilities
11. 7:13Python Mailing List
12. 7:40Responsibility
13. 10:05Questions
14. 10:47How can someone be involved
15. 12:07How to contribute
16. 12:59Code
17. 13:29Contribution Guide
18. 13:58Followup Question
19. 14:31What he told me
20. 16:24Finding bugs
21. 16:38Watch the bug tracker
22. 17:25Open source contributions
23. 17:48Fixing typos
24. 18:31Contributing code
25. 19:36Opensource projects
26. 20:16QA
27. 20:37Migration numbers
28. 20:58So many people
29. 21:21Not my expertise
30. 22:57How to become a Python Core
31. 23:25How can a contributor become a Python Core Developer
32. 24:12Earn our trust
33. 25:16How did you become core developer
34. 25:28Do you feel lucky
35. 25:54How much time you spend contributing
36. 26:52My salary is 0
37. 27:28I dont have balance
38. 27:50How can we get more women to contribute
39. 28:19Python is diverse
40. 30:47How to get more women contributing
41. 31:10Professional advice
42. 31:38Identifying problems
43. 32:01Barriers
44. 33:41Diversity
45. 34:59Improving

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