Abstract

This document describes the schedule and other details of the December 2021 election for the Python steering council, as specified in PEP 13. This is the steering council election for the 2022 term (i.e. Python 3.11).

Election Administration

The steering council appointed the Python Software Foundation Director of Infrastructure, Ee Durbin and Accounting Manager, Joe Carey, to coadminister the election.

Schedule

There will be a two-week nomination period, followed by a two-week vote.

The nomination period was: November 1, 2021 through November 16, 2021 12:00 UTC (The end of November 15, 2021 Anywhere on Earth). As announced on python-committers, and took place on discuss.python.org.

The voting period is: December 1, 2021 12:00 UTC through December 16, 2021 12:00 UTC (The end of December 15, 2021 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
• Mariatta
• David Mertz
• Dong-hee Na
• Pablo Galindo Salgado
• Gregory P. Smith
• Victor Stinner
• Petr Viktorin
• Barry Warsaw
• Thomas Wouters

Withdrawn nominations: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 85 eligible voters, 67 cast ballots.

The top five vote-getters are:

• Pablo Galindo Salgado
• Petr Viktorin
• Thomas Wouters
• Gregory P. Smith
• Brett Cannon

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
Ammar Askar
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
Dino Viehland
Dong-hee Na
Éric Araujo
Eric Snow
Eric V. Smith
Ethan Furman
Facundo Batista
Fred Drake
Giampaolo Rodolà
Gregory P. Smith
Guido van Rossum
Hynek Schlawack
Inada Naoki
Irit Katriel
Ivan Levkivskyi
Jason R. Coombs
Jeremy Kloth
Jesús Cea
Joannah Nanjekye
Julien Palard
Karthikeyan Singaravelan
Ken Jin
Kushal Das
Kyle Stanley
Larry Hastings
Lisa Roach
Łukasz Langa
Lysandros Nikolaou
Marc-André Lemburg
Mariatta
Mark Dickinson
Mark Shannon
Nathaniel J. Smith
Ned Deily
Neil Schemenauer
Alyssa Coghlan
Pablo Galindo
Paul Ganssle
Paul Moore
Petr Viktorin
Raymond Hettinger
Ronald Oussoren
Senthil Kumaran
Serhiy Storchaka
Stefan Behnel
Stéphane Wirtel
Steve Dower
Tal Einat
Terry Jan Reedy
Thomas Wouters
Tim Golden
Tim Peters
Victor Stinner
Vinay Sajip
Xiang Zhang
Yury Selivanov
Zachary Ware