> As it turns out I was removed from the list of voters by the above
> script, without being asked, and would like to be added back again.


I support this, and I hope this can be rectified for this election
period itself.

Thank you,
Senthil


On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 12:52 PM M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote:

> I had been waiting for the ballot email, but have not received any.
>
> I then checked the voters list and came across this section in the
> readme:
>
> """
> According to PEP 13, active membership is defined as "any non-trivial
> contribution in two years". As such, the coredev active command will
> create a pickle file containing the list of coredev.common.CoreDev
> instances of people who have authored or committed to the CPython repo
> in the past two years.
> """
>
> as well as
>
> """
> The coredev voters command will take an active membership pickle and
> generate a CSV file to act as a voter roll.
> """
>
> Looking at https://github.com/python/voters/blob/master/coredev/active.py
> it seems the implementation is not working with a status flag for
> each voter, but literally converts core members to inactive
> based on just the commit history.
>
> That's not in line with PEP 13 (even though this is quoted in the
> readme), which says:
>
> """
> Those who haven't made any non-trivial contribution in two years may be
> asked to move themselves to this category, and moved there if they don't
> respond.
> """
>
> The conversion to an inactive dev is something that core devs need
> to be asked to agree to, and thus needs to be managed as a status
> flag, not depend on commits to the repo.
>
> Regardless of the logic, I also find it highly questionable that
> core devs who are no longer committing to the repo, but have put in
> quite a bit of time into the project get their voting rights removed.
>
> Even when not actively maintaining code, they still do have a
> significant stake in the code base, own the copyright to their
> contributions and thus should have a say on the future of Python.
>
> As it turns out I was removed from the list of voters by the above
> script, without being asked, and would like to be added back again.
>
> Thanks,
> --
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> On 10.12.2019 20:52, Ewa Jodlowska wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > *This is a reminder that voting will end December 16, 2019 12:00 UTC.*
> >
> > If you have not yet voted, please do so soon. Momentarily, Ernest will
> > resend all the ballots to those that have not voted yet. If you cannot
> > find your ballot, try searching spam for sys...@heliosvoting.org
> > <mailto:sys...@heliosvoting.org>.
> >
> > If you run into any issues, please email myself (e...@python.org
> > <mailto:e...@python.org>) and Ernest (ern...@python.org
> > <mailto:ern...@python.org>).
> >
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Ewa
> >
> >
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