From 04266bbf7771d12a63196b8bb933fb587c5d8bc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Nathaniel J. Smith" <njs@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 02:51:27 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] PEP 8100: a PEP to track details of the steering council
 election (#862)

Inspired by this thread:

  https://discuss.python.org/t/how-do-we-want-to-collect-nominees/590
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 pep-0013.rst | 18 +++++++++++++
 pep-8100.rst | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 pep-8100.rst

diff --git a/pep-0013.rst b/pep-0013.rst
index 5e456006c..e96e94a0a 100644
--- a/pep-0013.rst
+++ b/pep-0013.rst
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ The current steering council consists of:
 
 * to be determined
 
+The current steering council vote is tracked in PEP 8100.
+
 The core team consists of:
 
 [TODO: we need a canonical list somewhere, in order to hold votes and
@@ -300,6 +302,9 @@ votes cast in a core team vote.
 History
 =======
 
+Creation of this document
+-------------------------
+
 The Python project was started by Guido van Rossum, who served as its
 Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL) from inception until July 2018,
 when he `stepped down
@@ -320,6 +325,19 @@ official reference, and will evolve following the rules described
 herein.
 
 
+History of council elections
+----------------------------
+
+* January 2019: PEP 8100
+
+
+History of amendments
+---------------------
+
+None yet.
+
+
+
 Acknowledgements
 ================
 
diff --git a/pep-8100.rst b/pep-8100.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a70a5fc90
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+++ b/pep-8100.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+PEP: 8100
+Title: January 2019 steering council election
+Version: $Revision$
+Last-Modified: $Date$
+Author: Nathaniel J. Smith <njs@pobox.com>, Ernest W. Durbin III <ewdurbin@gmail.com>
+Status: Active
+Type: Informational
+Content-Type: text/x-rst
+Created: 3-Jan-2019
+
+
+Abstract
+========
+
+This document describes the schedule and other details of the January
+2019 election for the Python steering council, as specified in
+PEP 13. This is the first steering council election.
+
+
+Returns officer
+===============
+
+In future elections, the returns officer will be appointed by the
+outgoing steering council. Since this is the first election, we have
+no outgoing steering council, and PEP 13 says that the returns officer
+is instead appointed by the PSF Executive Director, Ewa Jodlowska.
+`She appointed Ernest W. Durbin III
+<https://discuss.python.org/t/officially-appointing-the-returns-officer-for-the-steering-council-election/603>`__.
+
+
+Schedule
+========
+
+There will be a two-week nomination period, followed by a two-week
+vote.
+
+The nomination period is: January 7, 2019 through January 20, 2019
+
+The voting period is: January 21, 2019 through Febuary 3, 2019
+
+
+Candidates
+==========
+
+Candidates must be nominated by a core team member. If the candidate
+is a core team member, they may nominate themselves.
+
+Once the nomination period opens, candidates will be listed here:
+
+1. *Candidate (nominated by)*
+
+
+Results
+=======
+
+There are no results yet, but when there are, they'll be listed here.
+
+
+Copyright
+=========
+
+This document has been placed in the public domain.
+
+
+
+..
+  Local Variables:
+  mode: indented-text
+  indent-tabs-mode: nil
+  sentence-end-double-space: t
+  fill-column: 70
+  coding: utf-8
+  End: