I have to say, this is sort of surprising for what seems like the first official action of the steering committee. Are there really that many PEPs that a team that is now, what, 5x the size of the BFDL model is worried that they'll be able to keep up? As a long-time lurker, this hardly seems to be the case. Despite the seemingly-well-intentioned rationale, this seems like an ominous sign.

On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 8:33 AM Jeroen Demeyer <J.Demeyer@ugent.be> wrote:

On 2019-03-05 14:05, Calvin Spealman wrote:
> I'm worried this creates a gatekeeping perception that will scare away
> contributors.

+1

I also expressed this worry at https://github.com/python/peps/pull/903

You could keep the positive part of the sponsoring idea (somebody acting
as mentor) but drop the negative part (make it a hard requirement to
find a sponsor supporting the proposal before the proposal can even
become a draft PEP).
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