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- title: Transfer of power
- url: https://www.mail-archive.com/python-committers@python.org/msg05628.html
- hash_url: 5c19cc281938aa8a2140ada2a81d9d15
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- 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.
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- 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?
-
- 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.
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- The decisions that most matter are probably
- - How are PEPs decided
- - How are new core devs inducted
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- 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.
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- 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 (
- <a rel="nofollow" href="https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/">https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/</a>) although membership
- is closed (limited to core devs).
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- 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.
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- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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