[Python-Dev] Official Roadmap (Re: Let's get PEP 380 into Python 3.3)

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Westley Martínez <anikom15 at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 for voting

Can we call it something else though? "Voting" reminds me too much of
situations where people who don't do anything get to say what they
want others to do. That doesn't sit well in a volunteer-run open
source project.

But it makes total sense to have e.g. the users of the language
express their needs or desires in a way that can guide volunteers
looking for a project in their selection of the most important goals.
For this some kind of "poll" makes sense -- the outcome is not binding
and the assumption is that only a small representation of users
express an opinion, but polls (when used properly) can still be very
useful.

As long as other forms of feedback aren't suppressed of frowned upon
-- not every need can conveniently be expressed in a binary choice.

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)