PEP 8001: Public or Private Ballots?

[tim.one (Tim Peters)]

@njs

Huh, I think these polls are actually a good example of how a public ballot can aid in discussion!

I agree. How about starting a poll on the governance PEPs? Perhaps in @vstinner’s new

Comparison of the 7 governance PEPs

Hi, I wrote a comparison of some points which I consider important in governance PEPs. I chose to ignore some aspects which I consider less important like exact organization of votes (see each PEP for that). It is not always easy to extract the information and summarize it, so it’s likely that I made mistakes. My advice to vote on governance PEP would to not judge PEPs in their completeness, but focus on the decision process. Who can take decisions and how? IMHO it’s fine to complete PEPs w…

There’s no reason “the vote” needs to be the only summary of opinions.

Note: I made the poll here public deliberately, to counter my own obvious bias in favor of not making the CIVS ballots identifiable. If, e.g., someone was just knee-jerk opposed to ever attaching their name to anything, I expected they’d leave a public poll untouched. So making this poll public was “a ploy” to ensure that only people who thought there was something special about the governance vote that merited privacy would say so in public.

I wouldn’t object to a public poll on the PEPs either, although I can’t say whether that’s true of all the others who favored anonymous ballots.