[python-committers] A plea to stop last-minute changes to governance PEPs

[Steve Dower]

On 19Nov2018 0838, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 at 16:32, Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:
>> FWIW, I'm thinking about withdrawing it because PEP 8016 captures my
>> highest priorities (specifically, core developers don't have a monopoly
>> on decision-making skills, and don't apply unnecessary constraints on
>> whoever leads in this PEP). The rest of my proposal is just enough
>> detail to be functional, but I'm not really wedded to it, so if there's
>> an alternative that mirrors the core values then I'll tell people to go
>> vote for that instead of mine.
> 
> Interesting. I considered the distinguishing feature of your proposal
> to be that it explicitly *excludes* core devs from the council (to the
> extent that you call out that feature as what distinguishes it from
> 8011). I wasn't keen on that, so I never really got much beyond that
> aspect of your proposal to be honest - so it's weird to me that you
> don't think it's particularly significant.
> 
> But thanks for the clarification.
> Paul
> 

That was mainly just the easiest way to deal with conflicts of interest, 
but it was always a point that I'd bargain away if people were really 
upset about it :)

I'm sure we'll find sensible ways to deal with people who want to get 
elected just to pass their own PEPs.

Cheers,
Steve