[python-committers] Vote on governance will happen between Nov 16 - Nov 30

[Donald Stufft]

> On Oct 23, 2018, at 1:14 PM, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> [Alex Martelli <aleax at google.com <mailto:aleax at google.com>>]
> While I suspect most participants are aware of this, just in care some don't I thought I'd just point out that it's futile to look for a "perfect" voting system -- Kenneth Arrow proved that long ago, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem> 
> 
> Yup!  Ping's page acknowledges that explicitly:


Important to note that Arrow’s theorem applies only to ranked or ordinal systems, cardinal/rated systems are not covered by it (though the larger point of no perfect system still holds true).
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/attachments/20181023/adc960b3/attachment.html>