On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 7:45 PM Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > We discussed this and we think an anonymous vote on discuss.python.org is > probably best for this sort of thing. > > Victor, did you want to do the poll or would you prefer I set it up?
(just my 2 cents unrelated from this specific nomination per se) I agree that when voting for *people* (core-devs, Steering Council members, etc.) the vote should be private because it leads to a more neutral and honest outcome. Publicly voting "no" has a higher cost both for the voter and the candidate: voters may be tempted to vote "yes" or abstain just to not look bad or cause antipathy. Anonymous preference is a way to exclude the human factor and promote quality. That's how it's done in real life and has been done for the Steering Council elections, so I think we should do the same for core-dev nominations, and possibly also incarnate this in a PEP. It would be nice if such a PEP would encourage the person who proposes the nomination to provide a detailed description of the candidate (links to main past contributions, candidate's areas of interest, GIT statistics, etc.), so that the voters can express a better preference. On the other hand, I think votes for technical decisions (if any) are better if kept public, and possibly always accompained by a reason (otherwise abstention is better). --- Giampaolo - http://grodola.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
