[Distutils] BDFL Delegates for distutils-sig PEPs

[Donald Stufft]

On November 10, 2015 at 1:58:38 AM, Nick Coghlan (ncoghlan at gmail.com) wrote:
> On 10 November 2015 at 16:14, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> > On 30 October 2015 at 16:27, Marcus Smith wrote:
> >>>
> >>> =================================
> >>> Whenever a new PEP is put forward on distutils-sig, any PyPA core
> >>> reviewer that believes they are suitably experienced to make the final
> >>> decision on that PEP may offer to serve as the BDFL's delegate (or
> >>> "PEP czar") for that PEP. If their self-nomination is accepted by the
> >>> other PyPA core reviewer, the lead PyPI maintainer and the lead
> >>> CPython representative on distutils-sig, then they will have the
> >>> authority to approve (or reject) that PEP.
> >>> =================================
> >>
> >>
> >> Nick:
> >> just be clear, if nobody nominates themselves, then you still remain (by
> >> default) the active delegate who's responsible for ruling on a Pypa-related
> >> PEP?
> >
> > For anything PyPI related, it defaults to being Donald's call as lead
> > maintainer, for other interoperability specs, it defaults to me.
>  
> Although I'll also note that whenever Donald wants to handle an
> interoperability PEP himself (as with the dependency specifier one),
> I'm highly unlikely to object :)
>  

And of course, it’s likely that a lot of PyPI PEPs will end up having someone other than myself as the BDFL-Delegate since it’s likely a fair number of them will be written by me heh.

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Donald Stufft
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