Re: [python-committers] [PEP 8013] The External Council Governance Model

2018-09-29 Thread Steve Dower
On 28Sep2018 0649, Nick Coghlan wrote: > If we did go down the "independent > advisory council" route, I'd actually prefer to see it used to > strengthen the BDFL-Delegate system rather than weaken it: the role of > the advisory council would only be to step in when there was a dispute > amongst th

Re: [python-committers] [PEP 8013] The External Council Governance Model

2018-09-28 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 01:25, Steve Dower wrote: > > Here is the text of PEP 8013 for discussion and improvement (in > isolation from the other proposals, of course -- we're not ready for the > shoot-out yet.) > > I'm keen to see the model be considered, but I don't feel the need to > tightly cont

Re: [python-committers] [PEP 8013] The External Council Governance Model

2018-09-26 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Thanks, Steve, for writing this up: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8013/ A couple of comments: I like the council model, but don't understand why the core developers should be stripped from any decision powers. External people will not have the institutional knowledge core developers have,