[python-committers] Proposal: an explicit, time-limited moratorium on finalizing any governance decisions

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 at 14:59 Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com> wrote:

> Please extend the deadline: next week, I will be at EuroPython (I
> don't think that I will have time to sit down and come up with
> something), and I'm (more or less) in holiday the whole month of
> August.
>

The leading proposal of a deadline to get governance model proposals in and
deciding on a voting procedure is October 1. Do you need more time than
that? And if so how much are you asking for?

-Brett


>
> Victor
>
> 2018-07-19 21:43 GMT+02:00 Antoine Pitrou <antoine at python.org>:
> >
> > Le 19/07/2018 à 21:35, Carol Willing a écrit :
> >>>
> >>>>> My biggest concern is that dragging this on into the new year will
> >>>>> result in more bikeshedding, more uncertainty, and less confidence in
> >>>>> the developer community decision making ability.
> >>>>
> >>>> That's a fair point.  But there's also an opposite concern that
> >>>> discussions may be deterred or cut short by a too tight deadline.
> Even
> >>>> simple and uncontentious PEPs take time to write, discuss and
> finalize.
> >>>
> >>> Maybe it would be better to focus on a first date for submitting
> >>> proposals and then wait to set the rest of the deadlines until after
> >>> we have a bit more of the discussion behind us. That will give us
> >>> a sense for how much consensus there is and how much more discussion
> >>> might be needed.
> >>
> >> This suggestion seems to balance well the different perspectives.
> >>
> >> Proposals due by Sept 9, 2018 AOE.
> >
> > I still think it's too short.  Imagine someone leaving in August.
> > Besides catching up with work, the beginning of a new school year (if
> > they have kids) and other things, they have only 9 days to contribute
> > usefully.
> >
> > This is not something we can mobilize for to try and compress the time
> > span as much possible.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Antoine.
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