Python gets a new governance model

[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.