On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 at 08:05, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > There is no way to make a popular vote fair. > > That's an odd take. > > A better take is that, fair or not, popularity is not necessarily a good > judge of what works well in a language. Language design requires skill > and taste, and it is not obvious that the wisdom of the crowd extends > that far.
A problem with most online votes is that participation is self-selected. There is no way to measure turnout, and therefore, it is impossible to tell how representative the voters are for the community at large. If voting is limited to a select group (which could be as small as Python core developers, or as large as anyone who has ever had a pull request merged into cpython, or something in-between), then a vote could be a way to measure opinions after a lengthy discussion fails to reach a consensus. Gerrit. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/FOGDUYDNLUIANM4GBOLKNHKANOIJQUHC/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
