# Adopting the concept of "Teams" (from PEP 8015)

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/adopting-the-concept-of-teams-from-pep-8015/14210>\
**Category:** Ideas\
**Tags:** governance\
**Created:** [March 12, 2022, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/adopting-the-concept-of-teams-from-pep-8015/14210 "2022-03-12T09:01:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 22, 2022, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/adopting-the-concept-of-teams-from-pep-8015/14210/5 "2022-03-22T08:11:10Z")

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Last week, I asked on the Packaging category how people feel about a renaming.

> [@How do people feel about a "Python Packaging Authority (PyPA)" -\> "Python Packaging team" renaming?](https://discuss.python.org/t/14272/):
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> This is coming from [Adopting the concept of "Teams" (from PEP 8015)](https://discuss.python.org/t/14210) – which proposed that Python move away from having groups with names like “XYZ Authority” / “XYZ-SIG” / “XYZ community” to a single naming style – “XYZ team” – where each team is SC-ratified. If the PyPA does not/can not make such a transition, then I don’t think the overall proposal would be particularly useful. So… How do people feel about such a renaming? I can come up with three concerns: Renaming all the things. Consoli…

As I understand it, the general concensus is that people are happy/fine with a renaming as long as it happens as part of an effort to align the naming with other groups (as proposed here). No one has explicitly noted that they’re opposed.

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One relevant concern with the word “Team” (in the context of the PyPA, at least) that was raised:

> [@How do people feel about a "Python Packaging Authority (PyPA)" -\> "Python Packaging team" renaming?](https://discuss.python.org/t/how-do-people-feel-about-a-python-packaging-authority-pypa-python-packaging-team-renaming/14272/8):
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> As annoying as it is when people bring their baggage over “Authority”, swapping it for the baggage around “Team” might be worse.

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Most of the discussion so far has also involved a bunch of bikeshedding on the word “Team” and some sadness being expressed about the “Cheeseshop” → PyPI renaming. 🙂

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