The PSF uses a good voting system where votes are secret. I see no reason not
to reuse this infra.
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Best regards,
Łukasz Langa
> On Jul 18, 2018, at 5:26 PM, Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote:
>
>
> By the way, should the vote be public or secret?
> For such an important (and sensitive) matter, perhaps it would be wise
> for it to be secret.
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
>> Le 19/07/2018 à 00:18, Łukasz Langa a écrit :
>>
>>> On Jul 18, 2018, at 4:56 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> While I am totally fine with a super-majority of votes for something to be
>>> accepted, I don't think the minimum participation requirement will work. If
>>> people simply choose not to vote then they choose not to (we have no way to
>>> really compel people to vote).
>>
>> It could be easily added to the list of things expected from a core
>> contributor. It's not like this is a laborious chore, neither is it
>> happening often. There are countries where voting is mandatory.
>>
>> Taking a step back, there are two reasons I stress the importance of
>> (almost) everybody voicing their support:
>> - this makes the decision authoritative ("the committers have spoken");
>> - this ensures that we haven't omitted somebody due to poor timing ("I was
>> on a sabbatical and couldn't vote").
>>
>> If you feel like this is unrealistic because most of our committers aren't
>> currently active, I hear you. But what I like even less is claiming that
>> "we, the core team" made a decision when, say, just 35% of us voted. In such
>> case it would be easier for those of us who disagree to claim the decision
>> doesn't really represent the views of the greater core team.
>>
>> - Ł
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