Meeting Minutes: Jun 9, 2026
Meeting Minutes from Python Docs Editorial Board: Jun 9, 2026
Notes
- Team membership details:
- Guido is stepping down.
- What is the mechanism to get a new team member? It’s in the PEP: PEP 732 — Editorial Board Member Qualifications
- If a vacancy exists on the board for any reason, the Documentation Editorial Board will publicly announce a call for prospective board members. Prospective board members would submit a brief document stating qualifications and their motivation to serve. The sitting members of the Editorial Board will select new board members by a simple majority where quorum is 80% of the current board.
- Before getting a new team member, do we talk more about our purpose or goals first?
- To set up an application form, we first need to clarify the expectations and roles so people know what they’re applying for.
- Different directions as the EB:
- Be more reactive: we’re here, we can help if you need us.
- Be more proactive: create initiatives, have ambitions, goals.
- Identify significant work that needs to get done, then lead/project-manage/shepherd, and find people to do those (outreach).
- Possible stances for EB members:
- Be available to make big decisions (be like the SC for docs).
- Start and carry out significant work (this is more a core-team role, not an SC-style role).
- Identify big projects, reach out to find others to do the work, and lead them.
- If we go with option 3, we need to be ready to “project-manage” these ideas, and not just list the ideas.
- Requirement: a project will be listed only if there is a committed team lead for it.
- But what is the requirement to be a team lead, and what kind of commitment? What exactly does team lead/project lead mean?
- It should not be just a laundry list of things we want, but should also identify challenges related to the project.
- Docs WG meeting: review the notes.
- Need to review and come up with a list of projects for contributors to work on.
- Do we make a long list and let people find something that excites them?
- That might stretch our oversight efforts too thin.
- Or do we make a short list of our prioritized wishes?
- Projects should be described with details of what the challenges might be.
- To be successful, we need to find committed workers and be committed ourselves to the project.
- Write up expectations about being on the board. Hoping to get a new team member in Sept/Oct.
- Aim to get the word out by the next meeting.