Since 1179 (and with a few very minor exceptions in the centuries right after then -- none since 1612), the Catholic Church requires a super-majority of 2/3 to elect a new Pope. I don't see how the choice of a BDFL is so much more important to the Python community, than the choice of a Pope is to the Catholic Church; thus, requiring 90% rather than "just" 2/3 seems unwarranted.
In fact, a 90% requirement gets dangerously close to a requirement for unanimity -- allowing any member of the Sejm to shout "Nie pozwalam!" and thus end the session and nullify every decision made in the session. As https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberum_veto puts it, "Many historians hold that the liberum veto was a major cause of the deterioration of the Commonwealth political system" all the way to the partitions of Poland. Let's steer well clear of this: those who cannot remember the past, etc, etc... Alex On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 11:07 AM Łukasz Langa <luk...@langa.pl> wrote: > > > On Jul 18, 2018, at 11:54 AM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > > > > Are you saying that we should use some method besides voting, or that a > higher percentage of yea votes is required? If the latter, I have no > problem with 66% or 75%. > > The cleanest way would be for Guido to choose but he already said he wants > to stay out of the process. > > With that in mind, one alternative is for the President of the PSF to > choose ;-) > > ...so realistically the only alternative is a vote. Given the gravity of > the situation (a decision on how future decisions are made; long-term > consequences), I propose: > > 1. Define a committer as anybody with GitHub privileges. While not > everybody on this mailing list decided to get GitHub credentials, they can > do it at any point. At the same time, by defining the committer set as > GitHub contributors, we solve the issue of inactive contributors. And this > is important because... > > 2. Require 90% participation for the vote to be valid. > > 3. Require 90% votes in favor for the proposal to pass. > > If 2. or 3. fail, back to the drawing board. I'd lower those requirements > only after a few consecutive votes fail. > > - Ł > _______________________________________________ > python-committers mailing list > python-committers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers > Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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