PyPA committer vote process for PEP 772

pradyunsg · September 9, 2025, 12:39am

VOTE: PEP 772 - Packaging Council governance process

opened 09:11PM - 04 Sep 25 UTC

closed 12:38AM - 09 Sep 25 UTC

This is an issue to gather PyPA committer votes for endorsing acceptance of [PEP… 772 - Packaging Council governance process](https://peps.python.org/pep-0772/). <details><summary>Additional Context, for the interested</summary> This issue is where we're going to gather the votes, since it ensures that every PyPA committer has the ability to comment with their vote as pypa-committers doesn't have all committers on the mailing list. - This [off-list vote was discussed on discuss.python.org](https://discuss.python.org/t/103309) and [there was a pypa-committers email about it](https://mail.python.org/archives/list/pypa-committers@python.org/thread/OC23M5XR7Z34WZAJMZR3UJKLKLXAEN7O/). - This vote has been [seconded already](https://discuss.python.org/t/pypa-committer-vote-process-for-pep-772/103309/4). - PEP-related discussion links can be found in the PEP's headers. As noted in [PEP 772's appendix](https://peps.python.org/pep-0772/#appendix-a-pep-approval-process), that PEP's approval process should involve a [PyPA committers vote](https://peps.python.org/pep-0609/#pypa-committer-votes) as it is a governance change for Python packaging. Quoting the current governance process: > Each PyPA committer can vote once, and can choose one of `+1` and `-1`. If at least two thirds of recorded votes are +1, then the vote succeeds. </details> --- **Logistical notes** - If you have meta-notes on the process, please bring them up in https://discuss.python.org/t/103309. - When counting votes, I'll be filtering the comments based on who is a PyPA committer -- I'd appreciate folks who start their comment with a +1 or -1 since it'll make tallying the votes easier. - The final vote tally will be in a comment @-mentioning folks who have voted, so feel welcome to unsubscribe from this issue if you want and you'll still be informed of the result via that mention. - If we get somehow extensive spam here, one of the many admins can moderate replies or, if push comes to shove, set [interaction limits on this repository](https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems/settings/interaction_limits) (limited to only collaborators + organization members) for a week. If you do so, please post a comment stating you've done so.

I’ve called off the vote.