Jeroen Demeyer J.Demeyer at UGent.be
Tue Mar 5 08:24:43 EST 2019

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On 2019-03-05 14:05, Calvin Spealman wrote:
> I'm worried this creates a gatekeeping perception that will scare away
> contributors.

+1

I also expressed this worry at https://github.com/python/peps/pull/903

You could keep the positive part of the sponsoring idea (somebody acting 
as mentor) but drop the negative part (make it a hard requirement to 
find a sponsor supporting the proposal before the proposal can even 
become a draft PEP).

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