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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@python.org (Barry Warsaw)
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Status: Active
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Type: Process
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Content-Type: text/x-rst
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Created: 07-Mar-2002
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Post-History: 07-Mar-2002
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Abstract
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========
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This PEP outlines the python-dev voting guidelines. These guidelines
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serve to provide feedback or gauge the "wind direction" on a
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particular proposal, idea, or feature. They don't have a binding
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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 likely
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on python-dev [1]_), it is sometimes helpful to gauge the community's
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general sentiment. Sometimes people just want to register their
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opinion of an idea. Sometimes the BDFL wants to take a straw poll.
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Whatever the reason, these guidelines have been adopted so as to
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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 higher
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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] Python Developer's Guide,
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(http://www.python.org/dev/)
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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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=========
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This document has been placed in the public domain.
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