Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-05 Thread Mariatta Wijaya
Thanks all for voicing your concerns and all the feedback. So far I hear people opposing the strict deadline because they're afraid it means we'll be making rush decisions for the sake of meeting deadlines. Well here are my reasonings of why I'm setting deadlines and timelines: We all know it,

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-05 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le 05/08/2018 à 10:50, Ronald Oussoren via python-committers a écrit : > > >> On 4 Aug 2018, at 11:36, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> When Australia's prime minister disappeared, it took two days to swear >> in a replacement and less than a month to call a new election. > > But that was easy:

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-05 Thread Ronald Oussoren via python-committers
> On 4 Aug 2018, at 11:36, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > When Australia's prime minister disappeared, it took two days to swear > in a replacement and less than a month to call a new election. But that was easy: Most countries have predetermined procedures to deal with such scenarios. Ronald

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-04 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 09:22:44AM +0100, Paul Moore wrote: > On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 at 08:50, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > Indeed. A hard deadline concentrates the mind. It doesn't need to be > > tomorrow, I think your choosen dates are a great balance, neither too > > quick nor too drawn out. > >

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 1, 2018, at 12:41, Mariatta Wijaya wrote: > > Since this is like a CFP I figured we should clarify what's expected the > proposal, and I also wanted to be more detailed in the timeline. > > Oct 1 00:00:00 UTC: Deadline of coming up with proposals of governance model. Thanks for writing

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-03 Thread Jack Jansen
> On Aug 3, 2018, at 02:19, Yury Selivanov wrote: > > OTOH, it would be great if we can at least set a date to start the > discussion so that everybody can plan for it and join. That's the > only way to keep the discussion open and equally accessible for > everyone. If we do nothing, then

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-02 Thread Terry Reedy
On 8/2/2018 8:01 PM, Yury Selivanov wrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 4:43 PM Brett Cannon wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 at 17:58 Yury Selivanov wrote: On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 8:29 PM Mariatta Wijaya wrote: [..] I'm open to extend the dates, and even wait another year if we need to. Or do folks

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-02 Thread Yury Selivanov
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 3:55 PM Jack Jansen wrote: > > Nathaniel, you strike the nail on the head here. > > The reason Guido as BDFL and therefore ultimate authority on what “python” is > worked because it is organic: it is not set down in strict rules and > regulations and timelines and

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-02 Thread Yury Selivanov
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 4:43 PM Brett Cannon wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 at 17:58 Yury Selivanov wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 8:29 PM Mariatta Wijaya >> wrote: >> [..] >> > I'm open to extend the dates, and even wait another year if we need to. >> > Or do folks want to come up with a

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-02 Thread Brett Cannon
On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 at 00:24 Ronald Oussoren via python-committers < python-committers@python.org> wrote: > > > > On 2 Aug 2018, at 01:06, Yury Selivanov wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 6:44 PM Mariatta Wijaya > > wrote: > >> > > > >> Currently any undecided PEP is stalled, and no one can

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-02 Thread Brett Cannon
On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 at 17:58 Yury Selivanov wrote: > On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 8:29 PM Mariatta Wijaya > wrote: > [..] > > Please don't misunderstand my wanting to set up a deadlines and process > as wanting to rush things. > > Absolutely, I understand, I didn't want to imply that "[name] is >

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-02 Thread Jack Jansen
Nathaniel, you strike the nail on the head here. The reason Guido as BDFL and therefore ultimate authority on what “python” is worked because it is organic: it is not set down in strict rules and regulations and timelines and percentages of votes and what not. It works because a very large

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-02 Thread Victor Stinner
2018-08-01 23:10 GMT+02:00 M.-A. Lemburg : > So let's ponder some more about ideas we could use to > get there and perhaps watch some Monty Python movies for > inspiration ;-) Monty Python's Life of Brian is an obvious tutorial how to select a BDFL where FL means for life ;-) Victor

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-02 Thread Paul Moore
On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 at 08:50, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Indeed. A hard deadline concentrates the mind. It doesn't need to be > tomorrow, I think your choosen dates are a great balance, neither too > quick nor too drawn out. But it also encourages people (particularly people with limited free

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-02 Thread Paul Moore
On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 at 01:58, Yury Selivanov wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 8:29 PM Mariatta Wijaya > wrote: > [..] > > Please don't misunderstand my wanting to set up a deadlines and process as > > wanting to rush things. > > Absolutely, I understand, I didn't want to imply that "[name] is >

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 05:29:00PM -0700, Mariatta Wijaya wrote: > Please don't misunderstand my wanting to set up a deadlines and process as > wanting to rush things. > I'm open to extend the dates, and even wait another year if we need to. Please no. Leaving things in limbo for a handful of

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-02 Thread Ronald Oussoren via python-committers
> On 2 Aug 2018, at 01:06, Yury Selivanov wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 6:44 PM Mariatta Wijaya > wrote: >> > >> Currently any undecided PEP is stalled, and no one can pronounce on them. > > And maybe that's OK for a few months? I don't recall Guido ever > accepting PEPs promptly. :)

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-01 Thread Yury Selivanov
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 8:29 PM Mariatta Wijaya wrote: [..] > Please don't misunderstand my wanting to set up a deadlines and process as > wanting to rush things. Absolutely, I understand, I didn't want to imply that "[name] is rushing the process". Sorry if I sounded this way. I do have an

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-01 Thread Mariatta Wijaya
> > IIRC we always promoted core devs by popular vote, so I don't think > this would be a problem. Do we have any candidates that are currently > waiting for us deciding on a governance model? If this new governance model will include core devs being able to vote on PEPs, then I will have

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-01 Thread Yury Selivanov
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 6:44 PM Mariatta Wijaya wrote: > > > Thank you for the responses and concerns. > > I do want to keep this discussion open and ongoing, and I still think that we > do need a set deadline on things. I talked to a few core developers recently (at EuroPython and over

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-01 Thread Mariatta Wijaya
Thank you for the responses and concerns. I do want to keep this discussion open and ongoing, and I still think that we do need a set deadline on things. Currently any undecided PEP is stalled, and no one can pronounce on them. And we probably won't/can't promote any new core devs until we have

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-01 Thread Yury Selivanov
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 5:26 PM Nathaniel Smith wrote: [..] > Now we have to figure that out: the legitimacy of any new governance > system is ultimately going to have to rest on the consensus of the > core devs. The only way I know to get that is by taking the time to > work through the difficult

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-01 Thread Antoine Pitrou
I think Nathaniel and Marc-André are speaking wisely here. Sorry, I've not much to add ;-) Regards Antoine. Le 01/08/2018 à 23:22, Nathaniel Smith a écrit : > On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Mariatta Wijaya > wrote: >> Since this is like a CFP I figured we should clarify what's expected the

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-01 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Mariatta Wijaya wrote: > Since this is like a CFP I figured we should clarify what's expected the > proposal, and I also wanted to be more detailed in the timeline. > > Oct 1 00:00:00 UTC: Deadline of coming up with proposals of governance > model. > > To be

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-01 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Thanks for your action plan, Mariatta, but I'm -1 on having strict timelines for these processes. We need to gradually approach a new model as we've done in the past decades and not push for any possibly borked model right from the start. The processes for this need to stay flexible, easy to

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-01 Thread Mariatta Wijaya
Thanks! AoE timezone works for me. In that case, let's use AoE instead of UTC. Mariatta On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 1:36 PM Thomas Wouters wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 12:42 PM Mariatta Wijaya > wrote: > >> 2. Are people ok UTC timezone? >> > > FYI, for the PSF elections and similar

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-01 Thread Thomas Wouters
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 12:42 PM Mariatta Wijaya wrote: > 2. Are people ok UTC timezone? > FYI, for the PSF elections and similar deadlines, we use the AoE timezone: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe -- it makes it harder for people to miss the deadline for timezone reasons. -- Thomas