The new Python model is pretty similar to what Django has been using for years (and even admits that it copy/pasted significant chunks of text from our model).

The new Python model is pretty similar to what Django has been using for years (and even admits that it copy/pasted significant chunks of text from our model). I didn't realize how grim things were! I've served on Django's technical board -- its equivalent of the new Python "steering council" -- for several years. The technical board has the following responsibilities: * Act as a final tiebreaker for any decision that the dev mailing list can't manage to make through normal discussion * Review major proposals for changing Django or Django's processes (DEPs, our equivalent of Python's PEPs), with the ability to veto * Review proposals to add new Django committers, with the ability to veto The first category has never, as far as I can tell, come up, and for the other two the technical board has never vetoed a committer or a DEP. There also aren't many of them -- 24 in a bit over four years. I'm trying to push through a significant change to how Django works, but it wouldn't do away with the technical board; instead it acknowledges that the in-practice way Django runs -- discussion on the dev mailing list, open to everyone, with a couple people whose job is to merge PRs -- is working well enough that we no longer need to give special privileges to a large group of committers.