This document describes the schedule and other details of the December 2020 election for the Python steering council, as specified in PEP 13. This is the steering council election for the 2021 term.
The steering council appointed the Python Software Foundation Director of Infrastructure, Ee Durbin, and Accounting Manager, Joe Carey, to coadminister the election.
Python Software Foundation Executive Director, Ewa Jodlowska, will communicate announcements regarding the election.
There will be a two-week nomination period, followed by a two-week vote.
The nomination period was: November 1, 2020 through November 16, 2020 12:00 UTC (The end of November 15, 2020 Anywhere on Earth). As announced on python-committers, and took place on discuss.python.org.
The voting period is: December 1, 2020 12:00 UTC through December 16, 2020 12:00 UTC (The end of December 15, 2020 Anywhere on Earth).
Candidates must be nominated by a core team member. If the candidate is a core team member, they may nominate themselves.
Nominees (in alphabetical order):
Withdrawn nominations:
All active Python core team members are eligible to vote. Active status is determined as described in PEP 13 and implemented via the software at python/voters [1].
Ballots will be distributed based on the The Python Voter Roll for this election [1].
While this file is not public as it contains private email addresses, the Complete Voter Roll by name will be made available when the roll is created.
The election will be conducted using the Helios Voting Service.
Short name: 2021-python-steering-council
Name: 2021 Python Steering Council Election
Description: Election for the Python steering council, as specified in PEP 13. This is steering council election for the 2021 term.
type: Election
Use voter aliases: [X]
Randomize answer order: [X]
Private: [X]
Help Email Address: psf-election@python.org
Voting starts at: December 1, 2020 00:00 UTC
Voting ends at: December 16, 2020 12:00 UTC
This will create an election in which:
Select between 0 and - (approval) answers. Result Type: absolute
Question: Select candidates for the Python Steering Council
Answer #1 - #N: Candidates from Candidates_ Section
Of 91 eligible voters, 74 cast ballots.
The top five vote-getters are:
No conflict of interest as defined in PEP 13 were observed.
The full vote counts are as follows:
| Pablo Galindo Salgado | 59 |
| Carol Willing | 57 |
| Barry Warsaw | 56 |
| Brett Cannon | 54 |
| Thomas Wouters | 52 |
| Christian Heimes | 43 |
| Mariatta | 42 |
| Raymond Hettinger | 31 |
| David Mertz | 28 |
| Matt Harrison | 15 |
This document has been placed in the public domain.
Source: https://github.com/python/peps/blob/main/peps/pep-8102.rst
Last modified: 2025-02-01 08:55:40 UTC