I think it would be worth studying the governance structure (*) of a bunch of open source projects picked according to a set of criteria:
- major project in # of users and contributors - non BDFL-governed - mostly volunteer-driven - with an established decision process for major enhancements (*) (e.g. as an informational PEP) Regards Antoine. Le 12/07/2018 à 17:55, Christian Heimes a écrit : > On 2018-07-12 16:57, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> Now that PEP 572 is done, I don't ever want to have to fight so hard for >> a PEP and find that so many people despise my decisions. >> >> I would like to remove myself entirely from the decision process. I'll >> still be there for a while as an ordinary core dev, and I'll still be >> available to mentor people -- possibly more available. But I'm basically >> giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL, and you all will be >> on your own. >> >> After all that's eventually going to happen regardless -- there's still >> that bus lurking around the corner, and I'm not getting younger... (I'll >> spare you the list of medical issues.) >> >> I am not going to appoint a successor. >> >> So what are you all going to do? Create a democracy? Anarchy? A >> dictatorship? A federation? > > Thanks for being our beloved BDFL for so many years! > > The mail doesn't come to an suprise, although I didn't think it would > hit my inbox this year or next year. I've been pondering about possible > succession for you for a while. In my opinion we need some trusted > entity to have final say. Otherwise we are going to waste^H^H^H^H^H > spend too much time in bike shedding. But I don't see one clear person > to take your place as BDFL. > > How about a form of presbyterian polity in the form of a triumvirate or > quintumvirate? (For those with a lucky childhood that didn't involve > Latin and Greek: ruling of elders with three or five powerful > individuals). It would spread the load and responsibilities between > multiple core devs. > > I would consider (in alphabetical order) Barry, Brett, Mariatta, Mark, > Nick, or Victor as potential members. Each persons has been a core dev > for a long time and would brings a unique perspective into the > quintumvirate. For example Mark Shannon has an academic background in > language design. > > Regards, > Christian > _______________________________________________ > python-committers mailing list > python-committers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers > Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
