Re: [python-committers] 2019 Steering Council Election Results

2019-02-04 Thread Raymond Hettinger
> On Feb 4, 2019, at 4:11 AM, Ernest W. Durbin III wrote: > > The top five vote-getters are: > > - Barry Warsaw > - Brett Cannon > - Carol Willing > - Guido van Rossum > - Nick Coghlan Congratulations to the new council members! I wish you all the best. Thank you to everyone else on the tic

Re: [python-committers] 2019 Steering Council Election Results

2019-02-04 Thread Tim Peters
[Guido] > There are some interesting speculations possible about the spread of > the numbers ,and they give extra data on how the voters seem to think > and which (types of) candidates are likely to do well in future elections. Ir was already speculated about before the election ;-) As predicted

Re: [python-committers] 2019 Steering Council Election Results

2019-02-04 Thread Ernest W. Durbin III
On February 4, 2019 at 11:30:13 AM, Donald Stufft (don...@stufft.io) wrote: Did voting require you to select 5 candidates? Or was it up to 5? I don’t recall, but if it was the latter that could explain it.  It did not. Voting was "Up To Five" per PEP 13 and PEP 8100 signature.asc Description: Me

Re: [python-committers] 2019 Steering Council Election Results

2019-02-04 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 8:20 AM Ernest W. Durbin III wrote: > Antoine noted the same lack of transparency at > https://discuss.python.org/t/2019-steering-council-election-results/824/3?u=ewdurbin > . > > Ultimately I chose to initial publish results ASAP at the minimum > granularity necessary give

Re: [python-committers] 2019 Steering Council Election Results

2019-02-04 Thread Tim Peters
[Ernest W. Durbin III ] > Of 96 eligible voters, 69 cast ballots. FYI, the total number of votes Helios showed me summed to 340. At 5 approvals per ballot, I'd expect to see 5 * 69 = 345 for 69 ballots. Are we missing a ballot? ___ python-committers mai

Re: [python-committers] 2019 Steering Council Election Results

2019-02-04 Thread Donald Stufft
Did voting require you to select 5 candidates? Or was it up to 5? I don’t recall, but if it was the latter that could explain it. > On Feb 4, 2019, at 11:28 AM, Tim Peters wrote: > > [Ernest W. Durbin III ] >> Of 96 eligible voters, 69 cast ballots. > > FYI, the total number of votes Helios sh

Re: [python-committers] 2019 Steering Council Election Results

2019-02-04 Thread Paul Moore
On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 16:20, Ernest W. Durbin III wrote: > I can open a PR to 8100 with detailed results if no objections are heard. +1 Paul ___ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytho

Re: [python-committers] 2019 Steering Council Election Results

2019-02-04 Thread Ernest W. Durbin III
Antoine noted the same lack of transparency at  https://discuss.python.org/t/2019-steering-council-election-results/824/3?u=ewdurbin. Ultimately I chose to initial publish results ASAP at the minimum granularity necessary given that there wasn’t direction on what level of detail should be publis

Re: [python-committers] 2019 Steering Council Election Results

2019-02-04 Thread Guido van Rossum
As a voter, I can see the full list of how many votes each candidate received. I wonder if this should be published somewhere? There are some interesting speculations possible about the spread of the numbers ,and they give extra data on how the voters seem to think and which (types of) candidates a

Re: [python-committers] 2019 Steering Council Election Results

2019-02-04 Thread Ronald Oussoren via python-committers
> On 4 Feb 2019, at 13:34, Kushal Das wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 5:43 PM Ernest W. Durbin III wrote: >> >> Voting closed at 2019-02-04 12:00 UTC as prescribed in [PEP >> 8100](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8100/). >> >> Of 96 eligible voters, 69 cast ballots. >> >> The top fi

Re: [python-committers] 2019 Steering Council Election Results

2019-02-04 Thread Kushal Das
On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 5:43 PM Ernest W. Durbin III wrote: > > Voting closed at 2019-02-04 12:00 UTC as prescribed in [PEP > 8100](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8100/). > > Of 96 eligible voters, 69 cast ballots. > > The top five vote-getters are: > > - Barry Warsaw > - Brett Cannon > - Car

[python-committers] 2019 Steering Council Election Results

2019-02-04 Thread Ernest W. Durbin III
Voting closed at 2019-02-04 12:00 UTC as prescribed in [PEP 8100](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8100/). Of 96 eligible voters, 69 cast ballots. The top five vote-getters are: - Barry Warsaw - Brett Cannon - Carol Willing - Guido van Rossum - Nick Coghlan No conflict of interest as define

[python-committers] [RELEASE] Python 3.8.0a1 is now available for testing

2019-02-04 Thread Łukasz Langa
I packaged my first release. *wipes sweat off of face* Go get it here: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-380a1/ Python 3.8.0a1 is the first of four planned alpha releases of Python 3.8, the next feature release of Python. During the alpha phase, Python 3.8 remains under heavy devel

Re: [python-committers] Learning from PostgreSQL community: How to address the review bottleneck

2019-02-04 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hi Marc-André, I find this feedback very interesting :-) As PG is a sophisticated piece of high-quality software, if that process works for them, then it may deserve trying on our side as well. Regards Antoine. Le 04/02/2019 à 12:03, M.-A. Lemburg a écrit : > I've attended FOSDEM over the we

[python-committers] Learning from PostgreSQL community: How to address the review bottleneck

2019-02-04 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
I've attended FOSDEM over the weekend, where Jon Conway (one of the PostgreSQL committers) gave a talk about, among other things, the PG community and how it is structured: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/postgresql11/ (the community part starts at around 8 min into the video) What struck

Re: [python-committers] Fwd: EPS: Announcing the Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant

2019-02-04 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Happy to see that you like the idea. Our hope is that more conferences will pick it up as well. On 31.01.2019 18:41, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > >> On Jan 31, 2019, at 2:15 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> >> To help with growing the team, putting it more into the spotlight and >> give them a plac