Voting (was Re: PEP 318

[John Roth]

"Anders J. Munch" <andersjm at inbound.dk> wrote in message
news:406203c0$0$208$edfadb0f at dread16.news.tele.dk...
> "John Roth" <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> wrote:
> > "Michele Simionato" <michele.simionato at poste.it> wrote:
> > > Ick! Having passed through PEP 308, I just prefer directly agree with
> > Guido's
> > > decision without any votation at all ;)
> >
> > Half of the 308 problem was because Guido wasn't willing to make a
> decision.
> >
> > The other half was the voting method used.
>
> The third half of the problem was the people got wound up about
> details in the voting system.  Details that would have been relevant
> in a winner-takes-all vote, but were less than interesting in a
> BDFL-guidance-vote.

I don't remember that at all, although it may have taken
place on the deveoper's list (which I don't read). What
I remember is a simple statement of how the vote would
be conducted. Of course, I could simply have skipped that
debate as being uninteresting.

John Roth
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> - Anders
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