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

2018-07-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 21 July 2018 at 04:30, Donald Stufft wrote: > > On Jul 19, 2018, at 7:47 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: > > It seems that the main question for a new governance is how to take a > decision on PEPs (accept or reject them with some variants like > Deferred). I read that core developers are unable to

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

2018-07-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 21 July 2018 at 07:14, Brett Cannon wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 at 16:47 Victor Stinner wrote: >> What is the image sent to contributors if we create a subgroup inside >> core developpers called "council"? What if we elect a new BDFL *for >> life*? Does it mean that even core developers judgm

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

2018-07-24 Thread Brett Cannon
On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 at 07:46 Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 21 July 2018 at 04:30, Donald Stufft wrote: > > > > On Jul 19, 2018, at 7:47 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: > > > > It seems that the main question for a new governance is how to take a > > decision on PEPs (accept or reject them with some varian

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

2018-07-24 Thread Victor Stinner
Brett: > This will also make it harder to become a core developer. In the past we > have been willing to give people commit privileges for showing they know how > to code to our standards, make decisions when it came to PRs, and knew when > they were outside of their depth (e.g. giving someone comm