On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 7:58 AM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> 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. > Hey Guido, Thank you so much for creating Python and nurturing it for the last 25+ years. I, and many others on the list, have built our careers around Python and we own you a huge amount of gratitude. So thank you very much and I hope that your retirement goes better than it does for most dictators ;-) Cheers, Brian > > 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? > > I'm not worried about the day to day decisions in the issue tracker or on > GitHub. Very rarely I get asked for an opinion, and usually it's not > actually important. So this can just be dealt with as it has always been. > > The decisions that most matter are probably > - How are PEPs decided > - How are new core devs inducted > > We may be able to write up processes for these things as PEPs (maybe those > PEPs will form a kind of constitution). But here's the catch. I'm going to > try and let you all (the current committers) figure it out for yourselves. > > Note that there's still the CoC -- if you don't like that document your > only option might be to leave this group voluntarily. Perhaps there are > issues to decide like when should someone be kicked out (this could be > banning people from python-dev or python-ideas too, since those are also > covered by the CoC). > > Finally. A reminder that the archives of this list are public ( > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/) although membership > is closed (limited to core devs). > > I'll still be here, but I'm trying to let you all figure something out for > yourselves. I'm tired, and need a very long break. > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) > _______________________________________________ > 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/ >
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