PEP 10, Voting Guidelines, Barry Warsaw

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