[python-committers] Timeline to vote for a governance PEP

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 8:40 PM, Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com> wrote:
> The PEP 8001 is not trivial, it expects a specific format:
>
> **DO NOT LEAVE ANY BRACKETS BLANK!**
> **DO NOT REPEAT A RANKING/NUMBER!**
>
> Maybe it would help to have a script to validate my own vote? (Also
> ensure that all choices are present?)

I'm not sure what the motivation for those restrictions is. I guess
with IRV there isn't an obvious way to handle a repeated number, but
with Condorcet it's no problem. And both methods are fine with leaving
some options blank (it's equivalent to ranking the blank options as
tied for dead last).

-n

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