Hi! I’m excited to nominate Taylor Payne for a Core Contributor role as a Code Contributor to the edx-platform repository.
Commitment: Taylor, a member of the WGU team, has been focused exclusively on the Open edX project since April and will be contributing full-time to the Open edX project.
Caliber: In that time he’s made pull requests to various repositories. His code and docs contributions are consistently high-quality. For example:
Through the edx-platform work, he’s developed a strong understanding of its byzantine Django settings structure, and has spec’ed out a series of work to untangle and simplify it. The edx-platform repo is complex and sometimes brittle, but Taylor’s work so far convinces me that he is up to the challenge and will think carefully about architecture, performance, and backwards compatibility.
Conduct: Taylor is a thoughtful code reviewer. He’s been involved in over 30 PRs, consistently providing thorough feedback in a helpful and respectful manner. He also takes the time to make small docs improvements, tooling updates, and guides for the benefit of fellow community members.
Comment Period: Please provide comments/feedback on Taylor’s nomination before Fri Sep 19. Let me know if you have any questions. Happy to support this nomination however I can!
from me. Taylor has been doing a great job not only doing technical work but also advising others!