While I suspect most participants are aware of this, just in care some
don't I thought I'd just point out that it's futile to look for a "perfect"
voting system -- Kenneth Arrow proved that long ago, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem
Alex
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 9:
FWIW, +1.
Alex
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 7:36 PM Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> [tl;dr: We need some ground rules, because uncertainty makes it hard
> to think straight. But if we get sucked into a complicated meta-debate
> about the ground rules then that defeats the purpose. My proposal for
> a Minim
Hi Brett,
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 5:51 PM Brett Cannon wrote:
> [can I just say how much I've missed having both you and Tim around, Alex?
> 😃]
Heh, good to hear!-)
Another bit of concrete numbers: to get 84 people (roughly 2/3 of 91)
>
Uh, sorry, but -- even were you to become BDFL, you don
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 4:09 PM Fred Drake wrote:
> > On Jul 18, 2018, at 4:14 PM, Mariatta Wijaya
> wrote:
> > Let's be clear that we're not yet at the stage where we can vote for
> anything, let alone how to vote.
>
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 6:03 PM Łukasz Langa wrote:
> > I don't understand
There are plenty of precedents for mandatory voting, but the enforcement
mechanisms (if any) appear not to be applicable to our case. Note the "if
any": several countries declare voting a citizen's duty (in their
Constitution or otherwise) but don't actually enforce this duty in any way.
For exampl
Since 1179 (and with a few very minor exceptions in the centuries right
after then -- none since 1612), the Catholic Church requires a
super-majority of 2/3 to elect a new Pope. I don't see how the choice of a
BDFL is so much more important to the Python community, than the choice of
a Pope is to t
Barry, you offer truly compelling arguments for a new BDFL as GvR's
successor -- FWIW, you've convinced me.
And Brett would be an absolutely outstanding pick as that "new BDFL" -- on
this, I need no convincing.
Alex
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 7:08 PM Barry Warsaw wrote:
> I’d like to propose an
>
>
> How about a triumvirate (or trium*ate if “vir” is seen as too male-centric,
>
The root "vir" in appropriate contexts (though clearly not in all, e.g in
`virile`) has long been divorced from its original "male" denotation. The
best example is probably in the word "virtus" (in English, "virtue
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 1:26 PM, Neil Schemenauer
wrote:
> On 2017-01-24, Victor Stinner wrote:
> > You should take a look at this old deferred PEP:
> > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0407/
>
> Thanks, that's very close to what I was thinking. I would still add
> that we should be extra car
My GitHub Name, aleaxit, is at http://bugs.python.org/user16700 and has
been ever since April 4. Not sure why you think it isn't?
Alex
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 2 May 2016 at 10:48 Alex Martelli wrote:
>
>> I still see a 404 at https://github.com/orgs/p
I still see a 404 at https://github.com/orgs/python/teams/python-core .
Alex
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> OK, all done! For those of you already members of the Python org on GitHub
> you should be added already. For those of you who weren't, check your email
> for an i
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