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[python-committers] If you care about the voting method, please vote ; -)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Fri Nov 2 18:20:43 EDT 2018 
FYI I just updated PEP 8001 with the result of the poll which very clearly
favoured the Condorcet method for winner selection.

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 12:52, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:

> There's a poll about the voting method to use to decide on the winning
> governance PEP.  We'd like to see more people weigh in:
>
>     https://discuss.python.org/t/python-governance-electoral-system/290/26
>
> PEP 8001 specifies that IRV will be used.  There's pushback against
> that.  Since a poll is a form of approval voting, there's also
> pushback against using a poll to vote on the voting method.  But we
> really don't have the time to pursue infinite regress to its end ;-)
>
> I'm not in charge of anything, so take this for what it's worth:  pick
> the option(s) that are closest to what you can live with, but add a
> comment to the poll if there's some aspect of what you vote for that
> you really can't abide (e.g., at least one person said they would vote
> for Approval, _except_ that they object to getting the PSF Board
> involved in case there's a tie).  The high-order bit of this poll is
> about the basic approaches people can live with, not details of how
> problem cases are handled.
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