Thank you, Guido. This is a sad day for me personally; I really hoped you'd lead Python for a few more years. On the other hand, Python is in good hands, you've built a large enough and diverse community around it!
As for the new governing model, I imagine that we don't need to make any decisions *right now*. As Victor suggested, core devs can simply count +1/-1 on any language feature and we'll see how it goes. Or maybe the first such vote should be on the new governing model? :) I really hope that we won't have an excruciating debate on the mailing list about the governing model though; maybe we can discuss it on the upcoming core dev sprint. Yury On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 10:58 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. > > 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/ -- Yury _______________________________________________ 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/
