<div dir="ltr"><div>Just to clarify a key point here which is covered in PEP 1 but based on offline conversations is being missed, the need for a sponsor only kicks in for committing it to the peps repo which typically kicks in when transitioning from python-ideas to python-dev (although if one gets a sponsor sooner then great as getting mentoring on how to handle the process is always beneficial) . This should not be a barrier to presenting an idea or writing up a proto-PEP for python-ideas if people are too shy to ask upfront for a sponsor until their idea shows merit (and remember that we already ask people to fork the peps repo and get feedback on their proto-PEPs in their own fork instead of in the official repo). Nor should this impact slow-burning ideas which people have to warm up to as that typically happens before a PEP is written anyway.</div><div><br></div><div>I also don't see this preventing PEPs written to be explicitly rejected either. I personally am happy to sponsor such PEPs as I'm sure several other core devs are as well.<br></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 5:43 PM Brett Cannon <<a href="mailto:brett@snarky.ca">brett@snarky.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">The steering council has implemented a new idea called sponsors to the PEP process (added in <a href="https://github.com/python/peps/commit/c58d32c33bd06eb386d3f33963a1434510528f68" target="_blank">https://github.com/python/peps/commit/c58d32c33bd06eb386d3f33963a1434510528f68</a>). The thinking is that to help make sure PEPs from non-core developers receive appropriate guidance through the PEP process, a core developer needs to sign on to be a sponsor of the PEP. Being a sponsor does <b>not</b> preclude the core dev from eventually becoming a co-author or BDFL-delegate later on (but obviously not both), but the expectation is the sponsor is supportive of the idea (because if a single core dev won't sign on to help then what chance does the PEP have of being accepted?).<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>If this doesn't turn out well we can obviously revert this, but hopefully this will make things smoother for those who are new to the PEP process.<br></div></div>
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