On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 11:17 AM Tim Peters <tim.pet...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > [Barry Warsaw] >> >> ... >> >> * We retain a singular BDFL to lead Python >> * A Council is selected to serve as advisors to the BDFL, a selection >> committee for succession, and a check against the BDFL. > > +1 to this idea including Brett as BDFL. Though I am wondering if anyone asked Brett about it?
> You made a fine case for that a single dictator is the best possible > approach, for much the same reasons Emacs is the best possible editor. +1 > >> Brett Cannon > > > Not my first choice, but ... yup, I got the email back. Kim Jong Un is too > busy providing field guidance to potato farms and trolley manufacturers this > year :-( > > So that leaves Brett! However, to secure my full enthusiastic support he'll > first need to pledge to make porting Python to Red Star OS[1] his #1 BDFL > priority. Since a committee or a (ugh!) democracy would never do that, it > would prove he has the pigheadedness required to be an effective dictator ;-) > Red Star OS has Python in it iirc :) Means less work for Brett. Kushal -- Staff, Freedom of the Press Foundation CPython Core Developer Director, Python Software Foundation https://kushaldas.in _______________________________________________ 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/
