On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 11:09 PM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Okay, thanks everyone who answered. > > In hindsight you are all correct, writing a new PEP is the best solution > and I was being over-optimistic (and a little lazy) to think otherwise. > > I think that, technically, I still have core dev permissions, even > though I haven't used them for quite some time. If nobody objects, I > would like to use them to sponsor the new PEP. > > Does it make a difference if I am a co-author of the new PEP, or a > significant contributor? > > Dipping-my-toes-back-into-CPython-dev-ly y'rs, > For sponsorship it makes no difference. A PEP needs to have either a sponsor or a co-author who is a core dev. If you're *just* a sponsor you could still be appointed PEP delegate by the SC. But not if you're an author that can't happen. (Before we had an SC I occasionally approved my own PEPs. PEP 572 was the last such.) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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