2002-03-07 14:20:45 -05:00
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PEP: 10
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Title: Voting Guidelines
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Version: $Revision$
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Last-Modified: $Date$
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Author: barry@zope.com (Barry A. Warsaw)
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Status: Active
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Type: Informational
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Created: 07-Mar-2002
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2002-03-07 14:26:07 -05:00
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Post-History: 07-Mar-2002
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2002-03-07 14:20:45 -05:00
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Abstract
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This PEP outlines the python-dev voting guidelines. These
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guidelines serve to provide feedback or gauge the "wind direction"
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on a particular proposal, idea, or feature. They don't have a
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binding force.
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Rationale
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When a new idea, feature, patch, etc. is floated in the Python
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community, either through a PEP or on the mailing lists (most
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likely on python-dev [1]), it is sometimes helpful to gauge the
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community's general sentiment. Sometimes people just want to
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register their opinion of an idea. Sometimes the BDFL wants to
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take a straw poll. Whatever the reason, these guidelines have
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been adopted so as to provide a common language for developers.
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While opinions are (sometimes) useful, but they are never binding.
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Opinions that are accompanied by rationales are always valued
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higher than bare scores (this is especially true with -1 votes).
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Voting Scores
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The scoring guidelines are loosely derived from the Apache voting
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procedure [2], with of course our own spin on things. There are 4
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possible vote scores:
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+1 I like it
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+0 I don't care, but go ahead
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-0 I don't care, so why bother?
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-1 I hate it
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You may occasionally see wild flashes of enthusiasm (either for or
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against) with vote scores like +2, +1000, or -1000. These aren't
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really valued much beyond the above scores, but it's nice to see
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people get excited about such geeky stuff.
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References
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[1] Becoming a Python Developer, Andrew Kuchling
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http://www.amk.ca/python/writing/python-dev.html
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[2] Apache Project Guidelines and Voting Rules
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http://httpd.apache.org/dev/guidelines.html
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Copyright
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This document has been placed in the public domain.
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Local Variables:
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mode: indented-text
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indent-tabs-mode: nil
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fill-column: 70
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