Chris McDonough to join Django and Alex Gaynor to join Pyramid (April Fools Joke)
Django and Pyramid Communities,
I'd like to announce yet another outcome of PyCon. More cooperation.
The Django and Pylons Projects would like to announce the switch of maintainers in the spirit of cooperation. Chris McDonough will join the core Django crew and Alex Gaynor the Pyramid project.
This all really started at last DjangoCon with Chris being graciously invited to speak there. After his presentation and at PyCon 2013, we had a small BOF (read drinks) and it was decided that both frameworks can benefit from how the other side implements things.
To avoid confusion it was decided that Alex will now be a core lead of the Pylons project and Chris will in turn join the core Django team. First pass was done at PyCon 2013 with Alex volunteering at the Pyramid booth at PyCon :) ... and he did an awesome job!
We hope you will give Alex a warm welcome. Twitter: @Alex_Gaynor
Sincerely,
Pylons Core Team and Alex