On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 7:28 AM Mariatta Wijaya <maria...@python.org> wrote:
> My proposal is taking into consideration The PSF's mission and diversity > statement. I will not remove the diversity clause from PEP 8011. > +1 > To save us all trouble of discussing this particular issue, for those of > you who disagree completely, and have other ideas about how you'd like > Python to be governed and who should be in it, you can do one or more of > the following: > > - not vote on my PEP > - vote on the other PEPs > - write their own PEP > I would remind people that it's well documented that diverse group make better decisions. And given that there is a historical bias, often unconscious, towards white men I think it's good to try to counter this bias explicitly. I should also think that "merit-based" criteria tend to reinforce the existing unconscious bias. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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