[python-committers] A different way to focus discussions

[Ivan Levkivskyi]

I would like to clarify, what would be a typical time-line for a PEP? Will
it look like this:

0. Preliminary discussions to determine whether an idea is PEP-worthy (can
happen anywhere, python-ideas, SIGs, even offline)
1. A PEP number is requested by a champion and assigned by a PEP editor (in
python/peps repo)
2. PEP is drafted and discussed by a narrow circle of interested
participants (happens in a separate repo)
3. When PEP is ready and polished make a PR to python/peps repo, and post
it to python-dev to get feedback (if any) from a wider audience
4. If reasonable objections appear at this step, go to step 2
5. Repeat steps 2-4 until accepted/rejected/deferred

Is this what you propose? Or you want to completely avoid posting to
python-dev?

--
Ivan



On 18 May 2018 at 18:25, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> Discussing PEPs on python-dev and python-ideas is clearly not scalable any
> more. (Even python-committers probably doesn't scale too well. :-)
>
> I wonder if it would make sense to require that for each PEP a new GitHub
> *repo* be created whose contents would just be a draft PEP and whose issue
> tracker and PR manager would be used to debate the PEP and propose specific
> changes.
>
> This way the discussion is still public: when the PEP-specific repo is
> created the author(s) can notify python-ideas, and when they are closer to
> submitting they can notify python-dev, but the discussion doesn't attract
> uninformed outsiders as much as python-{dev,ideas} discussions do, and it's
> much easier for outsiders who want to learn more about the proposal to find
> all relevant discussion.
>
> PEP authors may also choose to use a different repo hosting site, e.g.
> Bitbucket or GitLab. We can provide a script that allows checking the
> formatting of the PEP easily (basically pep2html.py from the peps repo).
>
> Using a separate repo per PEP has the advantage that people interested in
> a topic can subscribe to all traffic in that repo -- if we were to use the
> tracker of the peps repo you would have to subscribe to all peps traffic.
>
> Thoughts? (We can dogfood this proposal too, if there's interest. :-)
>
> --
> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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