PEP: 8014
Title: The Commons Governance Model
Author: Jack Jansen
Status: Active
Type: Informational
Content-Type: text/x-rst
Created: 2018-09-16


.. note:: This is just a placeholder until the actual governance PEPs are
          written.  It is possible that the title, content, model proposed,
          and authorship will change once the PEP is actually written.


Abstract
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This PEP proposes a governnance model with as few procedures, defined terms and
percentages as possible. It may also be called *The Anarchist Governance Model*
but uses *Commons* for now because of possible negative connotations of the
term *Anarchist* to some audiences.

The rationale for the model is that everything that is cast in concrete will
have unintended negative side effects. For example, a governance model that
assigns voting rights to, say, Python committers may cause individuals not
to be accepted as a committer because there are already a lot of committers
from the company the new candidate works for. As another example, setting
a fixed percentage for PEP acceptance may lead to party-formation amongst
the voters and individual PEPs no longer be being judged on individual merit
but along party lines (if you support my PEP I will support yours). 

Copyright
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This document has been placed in the public domain.



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