Hi,
I have a question. When this PEP is approved by the PyPA and the SC, what happens to PEP 609 in the interim? As noted in the PEP 772 header, it supersedes PEP 609. To me that sounds like the PyPA won’t have an active process to handle governance until the inaugural Packaging Council can be elected, meet, and establish working agreements with the PyPA.
In practice, I’d expect that we will probably continue to follow PEP 609 votes as needed for day to day PyPA business (e.g., possibly the vote to accept pip-tools into the PyPA), but the current lack of certainty is not great. I’m asking because in Amending PyPA Governance to permit for use of PyPA funds, I am proposing that PEP 609 is amended to permit for a funding vote on a (still in draft) paid pip development proposal. If PEP 772 renders PEP 609 inoperative on approval, then that amendment (and thus the pip proposal due to time constraints) would be moot.
Just to be clear, I’m not trying to derail the PEP. I’m just a bit concerned since it may take some time between the PEP achieving final approval and the inaugural Packaging Council being ready to govern and manage PyPA.
If there isn’t a clear answer right now, I’d prefer to have one when the PyPA committer vote is called.