Re: [python-committers] discuss.python.org participation

2018-10-12 Thread Doug Hellmann
Brett Cannon writes: > One data point in all of this is Victor's PEP 8015. Here on the mailing > list I seem to be the first and only person to reply since the PEP was > posted on Monday. But over on Discourse there have been 3 people who have > replied and there's already been some back-and-fort

Re: [python-committers] python-committers is dead, long live discuss.python.org

2018-10-01 Thread Doug Hellmann
> On Oct 1, 2018, at 8:18 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote: > > Signed PGP part > > >> On Sep 28, 2018, at 5:45 PM, Łukasz Langa > <mailto:luk...@langa.pl>> wrote: >> >> Signed PGP part >> Hello committers, >> since this got pretty long, here&

Re: [python-committers] python-committers is dead, long live discuss.python.org

2018-10-01 Thread Doug Hellmann
> On Sep 28, 2018, at 5:45 PM, Łukasz Langa wrote: > > Signed PGP part > Hello committers, > since this got pretty long, here's the tl;dr: > > - we're at the point where it is hard to make mailing lists work for us; > - we're switching to Discourse; it's better in many ways; > - go to https://

Re: [python-committers] And Now for Something Completely Different

2018-07-20 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Steven D'Aprano's message of 2018-07-21 02:32:02 +1000: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 10:37:03AM -0400, Doug Hellmann wrote: > > Excerpts from Paul Moore's message of 2018-07-20 13:14:49 +0100: > > [...] > > > In contrast, I would imagine that peop

Re: [python-committers] And Now for Something Completely Different

2018-07-20 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Paul Moore's message of 2018-07-20 13:14:49 +0100: > On 20 July 2018 at 12:57, Victor Stinner wrote: > > Hum. Let me try to explain my point differently. Currently, some > > people don't read PEPs just because at the end, only the single BDFL > > vote counts. What's the point of spen

Re: [python-committers] And Now for Something Completely Different

2018-07-20 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Antoine Pitrou's message of 2018-07-20 09:49:01 +0200: > > Le 20/07/2018 à 02:51, Ethan Furman a écrit : > > My first issue with this model is, as discussed above, a lack of a > > consistent vision. A BDFL is not just there to say, > > "this PEP is accepted," but also to say, "cha

Re: [python-committers] Proposal: an explicit, time-limited moratorium on finalizing any governance decisions

2018-07-19 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Brett Cannon's message of 2018-07-19 12:44:23 -0700: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 at 11:52 Doug Hellmann wrote: > > > Excerpts from Antoine Pitrou's message of 2018-07-19 20:07:41 +0200: > > > > > > Le 19/07/2018 à 20:00, Carol Willing a écri

Re: [python-committers] Proposal: an explicit, time-limited moratorium on finalizing any governance decisions

2018-07-19 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Antoine Pitrou's message of 2018-07-19 20:07:41 +0200: > > Le 19/07/2018 à 20:00, Carol Willing a écrit : > > I appreciate and respect the importance of these decisions. The dates > > that I suggested, and I am not anchored to any of them, were not > > selected to rush or be hasty. I

Re: [python-committers] Proposal on how to vote (was: An alternative governance model)

2018-07-18 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Łukasz Langa's message of 2018-07-18 17:31:40 -0500: > The PSF uses a good voting system where votes are secret. I see no reason not > to reuse this infra. > > -- > Best regards, > Łukasz Langa This feels like a case where a consensus-based voting system may be better than one tha

Re: [python-committers] Transfer of power

2018-07-17 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Jack Jansen's message of 2018-07-17 11:33:22 +0200: > > > On 17 Jul 2018, at 02:02, Tim Peters wrote: > > > > [Tim] > >> Guido's most visible (well, to us committers) BDFL role has been in > >> "yes/no", "go/nogo" language/library design questions, which don't even > >> overlap w

Re: [python-committers] Organizing an informational PEP on project governance options (was Re: Transfer of power)

2018-07-13 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Nathaniel Smith's message of 2018-07-13 04:31:00 -0700: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 6:35 PM, Łukasz Langa wrote: > > I'm +1 to an Informational PEP around the state of the art in project > > governance. > > I think this is a great idea. There's a lot of experience out there on > diff

Re: [python-committers] Transfer of power

2018-07-13 Thread Doug Hellmann
ple up for fixes. > > I'm not sure what the proper governance structures should be, but they > absolutely shouldn't be dumping extra load onto the release manager. > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 3:49 AM Doug Hellmann <mailto:d...@doughellmann.com>> wrote: > Excerpts fro

Re: [python-committers] Transfer of power

2018-07-12 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Christian Heimes's message of 2018-07-12 20:54:05 +0200: > On 2018-07-12 20:50, Brett Cannon wrote: > > IMHO the N-virate should primarily be responsible for delegation. > > > > Side note: I think we'll be talking less and less about language design, > > and instead about

Re: [python-committers] Transfer of power

2018-07-12 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Brett Cannon's message of 2018-07-12 11:11:49 -0700: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 at 11:02 Yury Selivanov wrote: > > > > > IOW I don't see anyone (or some group of 3) who is as well-versed in > > everything on Guido's level. That can be solved if Guido agrees to > > join the permanent N-v

Re: [python-committers] Transfer of power

2018-07-12 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Yury Selivanov's message of 2018-07-12 13:29:21 -0400: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:58 PM Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > > > > > I'd like to point out that the N-virate idea doesn't handle a key issue: > > once you have a N-virate, how do you evolve its composition according to > > the im

Re: [python-committers] My cavalier and aggressive manner, API change and bugs introduced for basically zero benefit

2017-01-23 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Brett Cannon's message of 2017-01-21 19:51:48 +: > What I'm picking up from this is (as a gross oversimplification): > > * Victor _wants_ code reviews > * Raymond thinks we _need_ code reviews > > So the common theme here regardless of whether you agree with Raymond or > Victor'