On 2018-10-03 17:56, Wes Turner wrote:

The phrase "core developers and the BDFL" is where some sort of alternate quorum/majority policy would need to be specified if this is a contentious issue in practice?

The whole point of the process described in PEP 8000 is to make this more precise. The only question for now (in particular for PEP 580) is whether the old BDFL-Delegate system can still work until the new governance model has been decided.