It would have been nice to know beforehand if the results of the poll
were going to change the PEP. I didn't participate because I didn't
feel like the poll had a fair process like the PEP's themselves.

--Chris

On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 3:21 PM Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote:
>
> FYI I just updated PEP 8001 with the result of the poll which very clearly 
> favoured the Condorcet method for winner selection.
>
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 12:52, Tim Peters <tim.pet...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> There's a poll about the voting method to use to decide on the winning
>> governance PEP.  We'd like to see more people weigh in:
>>
>>     https://discuss.python.org/t/python-governance-electoral-system/290/26
>>
>> PEP 8001 specifies that IRV will be used.  There's pushback against
>> that.  Since a poll is a form of approval voting, there's also
>> pushback against using a poll to vote on the voting method.  But we
>> really don't have the time to pursue infinite regress to its end ;-)
>>
>> I'm not in charge of anything, so take this for what it's worth:  pick
>> the option(s) that are closest to what you can live with, but add a
>> comment to the poll if there's some aspect of what you vote for that
>> you really can't abide (e.g., at least one person said they would vote
>> for Approval, _except_ that they object to getting the PSF Board
>> involved in case there's a tie).  The high-order bit of this poll is
>> about the basic approaches people can live with, not details of how
>> problem cases are handled.
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