Closing the loop on PyPA Governance / BDFRN

[dustin (Dustin Ingram)]

@pradyunsg

@dustin Would you be working on an updated model that separates the governance model from the RFC process change?

Yes, if we decide we want to stick with the PEP process, I think this would be reasonable to do.

@sumanah

I do think that the PyPA needs to, at the least, make it clearer how a person or project joins the PyPA, what the criteria are, what powers it believes itself to hold, under what circumstances the PyPA would stop including a person or project (perhaps because of inactivity), and whether we want some kind of unified roadmap that we’re all working towards.

Agreed. I think this discussion is pretty focused on making technical decisions, but there are a number of other decisions that occasionally need to be made that are currently very ambiguous (especially to “outsiders”) and would benefit from a governance model.

Essentially, we could re-invision this discussion as an alternative to Remove the "Authority" from Packaging, and put actual authority in the organization.