Huh, I could have sworn that the last time I voted for the PSF board, there was a limit on how many boxes I could tick. Maybe I just hallucinated that?
Anyway, I’m not particularly defending the at-most-N variant, just explaining how we ended up with it. It was in the Django text we started with, it didn’t jump out at us as something that needed changing, it didn’t jump out at anyone who read the proposal as something that needed changing, and here we are. It’s too bad no-one noticed this back during the review period when it was easy to change, so I guess we’re stuck with it for this election, but if people want to revise it for the next one then I won’t stand in your way :-).
It might make sense to collect up several small “amendments” like this to handle all together, a few months from now once things have settled down. I know Łukasz would like to tweak the council term to decouple it from the release cycle, and probably we’ll run into a few other nits as we start using the new system for real.