[python-committers] Votes on new core dev candidates

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le 26/03/2019 à 09:58, M.-A. Lemburg a écrit :
> 
>>> Asking people who have voted -1 or +1 to publicly tell the world why
>>> they did so is not helpful in this respect, since it just creates bias.
>>> What people, who are unsure how to vote, really need, is more
>>> information, not bias.
>>
>> This is illogical. Knowing how and why certain people voted is useful
>> information when you know that person (and it's also why we generally
>> use options like -1, -0, +0, +1, and sometimes +/-100 ;) ). Without this
>> added information, the *only* thing we have is bias, and I don't think
>> we have a big enough group to average out individual bias in such
>> important decisions as this.
> 
> I guess we have a different understanding of bias, then :-)
> 
> I prefer to base my votes and opinions on available information
> much more than other people's votes and opinions. Using their
> votes to cover up for lack of information does not make me
> feel comfortable, so I try to get more information or abstain.

The reason I'd like to know why people voted -1 is not because I plan to
vote like them (I can vote on my own - or, in these cases, not vote).
It's that I'd like to know what kind of objections people have against
those particular contributors becoming core developers.

Regards

Antoine.