> On Nov 24, 2015, at 7:53 AM, Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2015-11-24 01:18, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> On 24 November 2015 at 05:35, Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote:
>>> On 2015-11-17 01:00, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>>> Hm, making Christian the BDFL-delegate would mean two out of three
>>>> authors *and* the BDFL-delegate all working for Red Hat, which clearly
>>>> has a stake (and IIUC has already committed to this approach ahead of
>>>> PEP approval). SO then it would look like this is just rubber-stamping
>>>> Red Hat's internal decision process (if it's a process -- sounds more
>>>> like an accident :-).
>>>> 
>>>> So, Alex, do you want to approve this PEP?
>>> 
>>> I haven't read this thread until now. Independently from your objection
>>> I have raised the same concern with Nick today. I'd be willing to BDFL
>>> the PEP but I'd rather have somebody outside of Red Hat.
>> 
>> Likewise, but the intersection between "wants to get PEP 476 into the
>> hands of as many system operators as possible as soon as possible",
>> "is a CPython core developer", and "doesn't work for Red Hat" is
>> looking to be a rather select group :)
> 
> Right, with Antoine and Alex out of scope and you, Victor and me working
> for Red Hat, the air is getting thin. Benjamin is familiar with the ssl
> module. Or we can follow Alex's advice and ask somebody from the PyCA
> group (Donald, Paul, lvh) or requests (Cory) to get some outside
> perspective.
> 

Under normal circumstances I'd probably be willing to do it even though I have
doubts about the value of it. However, I'm less than two weeks away from
closing on a house and will be moving into it after that, so my time is very
limited right now.

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