Abstract

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.

Election Administration

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.

Schedule

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

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):

• Brett Cannon
• Matt Harrison
• Christian Heimes
• Raymond Hettinger
• David Mertz
• Pablo Galindo Salgado
• Barry Warsaw
• Carol Willing
• Thomas Wouters
• Mariatta

Withdrawn nominations:

• None

Voter Roll

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.

Election Implementation

The election will be conducted using the Helios Voting Service.

Results

Of 91 eligible voters, 74 cast ballots.

The top five vote-getters are:

• Barry Warsaw
• Brett Cannon
• Carol Willing
• Pablo Galindo Salgado
• Thomas Wouters

No conflict of interest as defined in PEP 13 were observed.

The full vote counts are as follows:

Copyright

This document has been placed in the public domain.

Complete Voter Roll

Abhilash Raj
Alex Gaynor
Alex Martelli
Alexander Belopolsky
Andrew Kuchling
Andrew Svetlov
Antoine Pitrou
Barry Warsaw
Batuhan Taskaya
Benjamin Peterson
Berker Peksağ
Brandt Bucher
Brett Cannon
Brian Curtin
Brian Quinlan
Carol Willing
Cheryl Sabella
Chris Jerdonek
Chris Withers
Christian Heimes
Christian Tismer
Davin Potts
Dino Viehland
Donald Stufft
Dong-hee Na
Emily Morehouse
Éric Araujo
Eric Snow
Eric V. Smith
Ethan Furman
Ezio Melotti
Facundo Batista
Fred Drake
Georg Brandl
Giampaolo Rodolà
Gregory P. Smith
Guido van Rossum
Hynek Schlawack
Inada Naoki
Ivan Levkivskyi
Jack Jansen
Jason R. Coombs
Jeremy Kloth
Jesús Cea
Joannah Nanjekye
Julien Palard
Karthikeyan Singaravelan
Kurt B. Kaiser
Kushal Das
Kyle Stanley
Larry Hastings
Lisa Roach
Łukasz Langa
Lysandros Nikolaou
Marc-André Lemburg
Mariatta
Mark Dickinson
Mark Hammond
Mark Shannon
Matthias Klose
Michael Foord
Nathaniel J. Smith
Ned Deily
Neil Schemenauer
Alyssa Coghlan
Pablo Galindo
Paul Ganssle
Paul Moore
Petr Viktorin
R. David Murray
Raymond Hettinger
Robert Collins
Ronald Oussoren
Sandro Tosi
Senthil Kumaran
Serhiy Storchaka
Stefan Behnel
Steve Dower
Steven D'Aprano
Stéphane Wirtel
Tal Einat
Terry Jan Reedy
Thomas Wouters
Tim Golden
Tim Peters
Victor Stinner
Vinay Sajip
Walter Dörwald
Xiang Zhang
Yury Selivanov
Zachary Ware