Hi folks, As Sumana mentioned in her latest summary email, we've been looking at PEP 541 again, and figuring out how best to manage the process for getting that approved so that the folks handling name management requests can start relying on it. The key challenge with it has been the fact that this document is essentially defining a new operational policy for the Python Software Foundation (as the legal entity behind PyPI), and given that it relates to naming things on the internet, we can reasonably expect it to prove potentially contentious (and perhaps even turn litigious if someone *really* doesn't like a decision that was made in accordance with the policy). Approving that kind of policy would be a significant burden to place on the shoulders of a single volunteer, so we discussed it in the PSF's Packaging working group [1] (which decides how best to allocate any funding the PSF receives or allocates specifically to support the packaging infrastructure), and amended the approval process for this particular PEP as follows: - the BDFL-Delegate is now Mark Mangoba, in his role as the PSF's IT manager - rather than approving the PEP directly, Mark will instead put it forward for a vote in the Packaging Working Group (similar to the way we handle funding allocation decisions) - input from the PSF's General Counsel will be explicitly requested prior to the vote The commit making those changes can be found here: https://github.com/python/peps/commit/6c356f0472b38e69e8a59a2dee1f275b61aeaf... distutils-sig will remain the mailing list for discussing the actual contents of the policy (and any future amendments to it) - the change in approach just makes it clearer that the policy needs to be explicitly adopted by the PSF as an entity, rather than by an individual volunteer. Regards, Nick. [1] https://wiki.python.org/psf/PackagingWG -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia