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

Brett Cannon brett at snarky.ca
Tue Mar 5 14:31:08 EST 2019

On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 3:36 AM Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com> wrote:

Hi,

Le mar. 5 mars 2019 à 02:53, Brett Cannon <brett at snarky.ca> a écrit : > The steering council has implemented a new idea called sponsors to the PEP process (...). The thinking is that to help make sure PEPs from non-core developers receive appropriate guidance through the PEP process (...) Hum, this isn't fully new, some PEPs already got a "PEP champion" (old name), no?

Sure. You can consider this just making it a more formal thing then.

-Brett

A recent example is PEP 572 who has been "championed" by Guido van Rossum, then by Tim Peters. In this specific case, they became co-authors :-) > ... eventually becoming a co-author or BDFL-delegate later Nitpick: since Python has no more BDFL, maybe the expression should becocme "PEP-delegate"? ;-)

That's covered in PEP 1 as to why the name has been kept so far.

-Brett

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