[Nathaniel Smith] > ... > Well, sure, we can try to come up with something to slot into the > space Guido is leaving, while keeping everything else the same, that's > one option.
There are already differences between "a Guido" and what Larry suggested. > But I doubt it's the best one. Then please suggest something specific you think is better. > Guido is, quite literally, irreplaceable. > Yet the roles he played are not self-evidently dispensable either. > > The US Supreme Court is the closest thing to a dictatorial institution > the > > US has (lifetime appointments, answerable to nobody, and against which > there > > is no appeal), so it's a natural model to consider when replacing a > > dictator. > > Yeah, I get why it comes to mind for USians here, but there are also, > like... lots of actual open-source projects that have transitioned > from a BDFL model to something else, and they're probably even more > natural models ;-). Then spell out what they did and how that worked for them? I'm not familiar with any such. The closest match to Python's development process I know of was Perl's, but Larry Wall is still (AFAIK) dictator-for-life in Perl world. On the face of it, sure, I'd rather look at a successful transition in an open source software project than at the centuries-old experiment that brought us American politics ;-)
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