PEP 8016 - The steering council model

[xiangz (Xiang Zhang)]

Thanks for the reply.

@njs

The council votes are always simple majority (reference ), except for the special case of ejecting an existing core team member, which requires a supermajority. So a veto requires a simple majority.

In the PEP I only see the word strict majority:

@njs

To use its powers, the council votes. Every council member must either vote or explicitly abstain. Members with conflicts of interest on a particular vote must abstain. Passing requires a strict majority of non-abstaining council members.

Are they the same thing? simple majority has a definition in wikipedia, not strict majority.

@njs

Imagine there’s some developer who has a good public reputation, but you know that in private they’re an abusive manipulator who does terrible things to people.

Not sure in open source world we should take such real life things into consideration. It’s complicated.

@njs

This kind of procedural edge case is tiresome and unpleasant, so maybe we should merge the two powers to keep things simpler.

+1. The council could use their power later if there is really a problem. Promoting core devs could be frequent but not ejecting one. I think so.