[python-committers] Vote to promote Stéphane Wirtel as a core dev

[Brett Cannon]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 4:17 PM Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com> wrote:

> Le ven. 22 mars 2019 à 22:42, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> a écrit :
> > I don't think people have to justify their vote. We don't ask that of
> anyone else in any other votes that we hold.
>
> Ok, I'm fine with that.
>
> I wanted to ask explicitly, since votes on python-committers mailing
> required to post a change. It's a change compared to old way to vote.
>
> --
>
> By the way, is the Steering Committee ok with the proposed duration
> for the vote (we proposed 1 week)?


I'm personally fine with it, but we haven't formally discussed this. But I
doubt anyone else on the council will care so just assume a week is fine.
:) There's no need to rush a resolution but there's also no need to drag it
out either, and a week guarantees at least one weekend for those that only
check their open source emails once a week.


> I'm asking because the duration was
> never really discussed... In the past, sometimes Guido closed
> immediately a vote by saying "ok, we got enough +1, <candidate> is
> promoted", the duration of the vote wasn't announced in advance.
>

It's unfortunately a deficiency in PEP 13 as it's not specified in
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0013/#membership . It's probably
something we should fix in PEP 13 by following
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0013/#changing-this-document but which
also lacks a time frame for votes. :)


>
> I like to announce a deadline so people can take their time before
> voting, if they want, to see the trend. The ones who missed the
> deadline cannot complain since it has been announced from the start
> ;-)
>

Go with a week since the poll opened on discuss.python.org.


>
> Maybe it's better to let the Steering Committee close the vote.
> Honestly, I'm not sure of what is the best :-D
>

No one does. :) We're all trying to figure this out as a group as we adjust
to our new governance situation.

-Brett


>
> Victor
> --
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