[Python-Dev] Please Vote -- Generator Comprehensions (original) (raw)

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Thu, 7 Mar 2002 12:22:18 -0500

"JH" == Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@zope.com> writes:

JH> I'm puzzled by this vote.  I did not know that people took
JH> random votes of Python developers in advance of a PEP.  To
JH> paraphrase the IETF:  I don't believe in votes, just rough
JH> consensus and running code.

It's like "Who's Line Is It Anyway?"; the points don't matter. :)

JH> If we are going to vote, please keep in mind the intended
JH> meaning of votes:

| +1, I endorse
| 0, I don't endorse
| -1, I veto; this proposal will get in over my dead body

Actually, it's +1, +0, -0, -1, with the sign of the 0 "vote" giving the direction of your lean on the non-endorsement.

BTW, does anybody have a reference to where this voting system originated or where it's been spelled out elegantly? I want to write a short informatinal PEP on it for posterity. I vaguely remember it started in the Apache world and Greg Stein transported it here.

-Barry