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PEP 13: Add STAR voting and misc tidbits #3958

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STAR voting with Multi-winner Bloc STAR
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Note linking to devguide Discourse template
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17 changes: 14 additions & 3 deletions peps/pep-0013.rst
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Expand Up @@ -105,9 +105,11 @@ A council election consists of two phases:
must be nominated by a core team member. Self-nominations are
allowed.

* Phase 2: Each core team member can vote for zero or more of the
candidates. Voting is performed anonymously. Candidates are ranked
by the total number of votes they receive. If a tie occurs, it may
* Phase 2: Each core team member can assign zero to five stars to each
candidate. Voting is performed anonymously. The outcome of the vote
is determined using the `STAR voting system <https://www.starvoting.org/>`__,
modified to use the `Multi-winner Bloc STAR <https://www.starvoting.org/multi_winner>`__)
approach. If a tie occurs, it may
be resolved by mutual agreement among the candidates, or else the
winner will be chosen at random.

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core team vote that is open for one week and is not vetoed by the
steering council.

.. note:: The devguide has a `suggested template
<https://devguide.python.org/core-developers/become-core-developer/#poll-template>`__
to use for such votes.

Core team members are always looking for promising contributors,
teaching them how the project is managed, and submitting their names
to the core team's vote when they're ready.
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Changes to this document require at least a two-thirds majority of
votes cast in a core team vote which should be open for two weeks.

No vote is required to update note blocks and the "Current steering
council" and "History of council elections" sections with current
information.


History
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---------------------

2019-04-17: Added the vote length for core devs and changes to this document.
2024-XX-XX: Adopted Multi-winner Bloc STAR voting for council elections.
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Remember to fill in the actual date the PR was approved by a Discord poll (or some other significant date, maybe just the date the PR is merged).

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you can link to https://discuss.python.org/t/changing-pep-13-to-adopt-bloc-star-voting/64971 here.

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This suggestion uses a footnote -- I couldn't think of a nice way to incorporate the link other than linking the whole line or having a '(link)' trailer, which we try to avoid.

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2024-XX-XX: Adopted Multi-winner Bloc STAR voting for council elections.
2024-10-09: Adopted Multi-winner Bloc STAR voting for council elections. [1]_
.. [1] https://discuss.python.org/t/64971

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In the PEP metadata, the dates in post-history are links to changesets, so the date could be made a link here too, unless you think it’s not intuitive.

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I think it's more appropriate for this to link to the vote that approved the change. The changeset/PR can easily be retrieved using GitHub or git blame; there's no easy wat to find the voting thread without explicitly linking it here.




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