Yes, it was a trivial decision and looks like that decision was not taken, so people expected that to happen sometime: "Well, I've said multiple times that I'll

Yes, it was a trivial decision and looks like that decision was not taken, so people expected that to happen sometime: "Well, I've said multiple times that I'll be working on this during the PyCon sprints". More than that, the closing message: 'Closing, rejected, due to use of "approval" as spam.' Yes, it is up to the maintainer to do that. How he do that matters.