[Python-ideas] Anonymizing the PyCon review process

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 15:32, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
>
> [Terry Jones]
>>
>> The obvious suggestion is to anonymize the review process.
>
> FWIW, that was tried and the people complained about that too.
>
> Who would you rather hear speak about the future of Python, Guido and
> someone else?
> About the state of Twisted, from someone on that team or from a user who
> read the Twisted book?
> About UnladedSwallow or AppEngine, someone on Google's team or someone who
> has played around with it for a while?
>
> Also, there are some folks like Alex Martelli whose talks I will seek out no
> matter what he's talking about (because it's always worthwhile). Likewise,
> it's not irrelevant if a speaker previously gave a talk that sucked.
>
> Surely, the review process has room for improvements and better balance but
> anonymizing is a step too far IMO.

I agree. The year we went fully anonymous did not turn out as well as
previous years.

And I would also like to say this is off-topic for python-ideas. This
would be better discussed on the pycon-pc list or directly at some
other PyCon mailing list.

-Brett