<div dir="ltr"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Thank you for the responses and concerns.</span><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I do want to keep this discussion open and ongoing, and I still think that we do need a set deadline on things.</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Currently any undecided PEP is stalled, and no one can pronounce on them.</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">And we probably won't/can't promote any new core devs until we have new governance.</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Someone brought up the idea where core devs would be able to decide/vote on PEPs and that would affect how we promote core devs.</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I hope that having these dates will encourage all of us to prioritize this issue and coming up with a solution.</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">If the deadline of January 1st is too short, please propose alternate dates, but it should not be "whenever".</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">We may very well end up not having any kind of governance body<br></span><span style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">initially and use a simple democratic voting scheme for any<br></span><span style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">issues which may arise.</span></blockquote><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I see this as one proposal of a governance body, and it's acceptable if you want to propose that we go this route for X years and re-evaluate it again. </div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">It should be ok for us to choose one governance model this time, but decide on something else next. <br></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Mariatta</div></div></div></div></div>