Does the Nov 16 - Nov 30 voting timeframe still work?

[tim.one (Tim Peters)]

EDIT

I’m closing this poll, in favor of the newer one asking PEP authors how much time they need.

@ambv

the vote is on between Nov 16 and Nov 30 as originally planned.

@njs

This is news to me,

The relevant PEP (8001) didn’t change the date, and hasn’t been touched for over a week now. There was no discussion of changing the date here either.

@njs

In the original PEP 8001, if discussion spilled over into the voting period that was OK, because people could always change their votes. But in this thread it was decided to switch to a system where it’s impossible for people to change their mind after they vote.

As mentioned before, people definitely need to be aware that they can’t change their vote. But the amount of time they have to consider their vote hasn’t changed - they’d be well advised to vote toward the end of the voting window, unless they’re sure they won’t change their mind.

@njs

There seemed to be general agreement there that this was only workable if we had a pre-poll survey…

Whereas I read it as that people didn’t want to bother with a Discourse poll. The quite strong (to me) evidence is that nobody in fact did bother to create one, despite that it’s so easy to do and was last suggested a week ago.

I don’t really care when the vote starts or ends, but there has been strong consensus that we need to get it done. The announced dates haven’t changed, and have been spelled out in the controlling PEP all along. It will always be “too soon” for someone, yes?

That said … which voting window(s) are acceptable to people?

• 16 Nov - 30 Nov (current)
• 23 Nov - 7 Nov (delay a week)
• 30 Nov - 14 Dec (delay 2 weeks)
• 7 Dec - 21 Dec (delay 3 weeks)
• 14 Dec - 28 Dec (delay 4 weeks)
• spill into next year