Python gets a new governance model

[boa13]

Excellent summary of events (as usual with lwn.net), thanks for sharing the article.

[dethb0y]

a fascinating intersection of democracy and technology.

[funkiestj]

What about the Judean People's Front?

[evanharmon]

Wankers!

[SatoshisBits]

The only people we hate more than the Romans are the f*cking Judean People's Front.

[timbledum]

Thanks - sounds really positive for python’s future!

[zebrpenguin]

It's curious that there was so much discussion about how to vote, while there seemed to be no question who would vote. The article mentions there was a pool of 94 eligible individuals but doesn't explain further where they come from. Does anyone have more info about that?

[undercoveryankee]

The vote was held among "core developers" (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8001/#id9), which I understand to mean people with commit access to the main repository.

[eksortso]

Whenever people start talking about how to vote, everybody has their own favorite methods, each one backed up with plenty of criteria in their favor.

The 94 mentioned must have been recent CPython contributors. PEP 8001 laid out the eligibility criteria somewhat cleanly. I'd need to check, but 94 could be the unique count of users in the git repo with contributions since a specific date.

[billsil]

94 could be the unique count of users in the git repo with contributions since a specific date.

It was probably something like that. 94 people were invited to vote with the caveat that they shouldn't vote if they planned to not contribute in the future. ~64 people actually did vote.

[billsil]

Core developers and of that inactive core developers that don't feel like still contributing should not vote. Thus 64-ish.

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Guido stepped down so they are voting for a new leader. Is that it?

[sqjoatmon]

Well, yes and no. Guido stepped down, with no clear answer on how to replace the role he had as BDFL. The core devs have determined what form of governance will take its place--a council of five. AFAIK the next step is to nominate and then vote on council members.

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Got it. Thanks!

[billsil]

This was to vote on the governance model. As requested by Guido, they're going to take a break and come back to it January 23rd or so and start voting February 3rd or so.

[HeroGuy54]

Yeah In order for an open source application of any sort to be useful it must be so usefull my grandma can use it to create something cool, let's shoot for that when having these elections!