[python-committers] Proposal: an explicit, time-limited moratorium on finalizing any governance decisions

[Carol Willing]

> On Jul 19, 2018, at 11:52 AM, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:
> 
> Excerpts from Antoine Pitrou's message of 2018-07-19 20:07:41 +0200:
>> 
>> Le 19/07/2018 à 20:00, Carol Willing a écrit :
>>> I appreciate and respect the importance of these decisions. The dates
>>> that I suggested, and I am not anchored to any of them, were not
>>> selected to rush or be hasty. Instead, it was respect for our time
>>> together (at least some of us) at the September sprint and to have all
>>> proposals on the table by that time.
>> 
>> I hadn't thought about the September sprint.  I'd say it's up to people
>> to discuss those things there if they want or not (I would prefer if we
>> could avoid discussions in select groups like that, but I don't think
>> there's any reasonable way to prevent it).
> 
> The best way to mitigate it is to agree that select groups who happen to
> be able to meet in person won't make any final decisions, and that any
> discussions they have that start to trend toward agreement will be
> summarized to the mailing list so that the folks not able to be present
> can benefit from and participate in the discussion.

Excellent suggestion. Reporting to the mailing list, python-committers and python-dev, would be the courteous and productive thing to do.


> 
>>> My biggest concern is that dragging this on into the new year will
>>> result in more bikeshedding, more uncertainty, and less confidence in
>>> the developer community decision making ability.
>> 
>> That's a fair point.  But there's also an opposite concern that
>> discussions may be deterred or cut short by a too tight deadline.  Even
>> simple and uncontentious PEPs take time to write, discuss and finalize.
> 
> Maybe it would be better to focus on a first date for submitting
> proposals and then wait to set the rest of the deadlines until after
> we have a bit more of the discussion behind us. That will give us
> a sense for how much consensus there is and how much more discussion
> might be needed.

This suggestion seems to balance well the different perspectives.

Proposals due by Sept 9, 2018 AOE.

No formal decisions prior to October 1, 2018.


> 
> Doug
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