[Python-Dev] PEPs from non-core devs now need a sponsor (original) (raw)

James Edwards jheiv at jheiv.com
Tue Mar 5 09:20:15 EST 2019

I have to say, this is sort of surprising for what seems like the first official action of the steering committee. Are there really *that many *PEPs that a team that is now, what, 5x the size of the BFDL model is worried that they'll be able to keep up? As a long-time lurker, this hardly seems to be the case. Despite the seemingly-well-intentioned rationale, this seems like an ominous sign.

On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 8:33 AM Jeroen Demeyer <J.Demeyer at ugent.be> wrote:

On 2019-03-05 14:05, Calvin Spealman wrote: > I'm worried this creates a gatekeeping perception that will scare away > contributors.

+1 I also expressed this worry at https://github.com/python/peps/pull/903 You could keep the positive part of the sponsoring idea (somebody acting as mentor) but drop the negative part (make it a hard requirement to find a sponsor supporting the proposal before the proposal can even become a draft PEP).

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