Per Antoine's comment:
That might be a minority view, but I don't think anyone except Guido would be legitimate as a Python BDFL. Not even Tim or Barry ;-)
I think all agree that there simply is no replacing Guido, there is only succeeding Guido and demonstrating that what he has built and cultivated in this community and those on this mailing list is self-sustaining.
Per Christian's comment, repeated by many:
How about a form of presbyterian polity in the form of a triumvirate
+1 +1 +1
Per Brett's comment:
What that means is I think we should either have another BDFL or go with Christian's triumvirate suggestion in the name of general consistency and guidance
Consistency, I suggest, outweighs many of our other valid concerns raised so far. I support the approach of sorting out over time how the composition of the triumvirate changes and when -- legislating how things work before we have a good sense of things will quickly become problematic. I have faith in the people we are choosing from for the first triumvirate.
Per Raymond's comment:
Sorry the PEP process was so painful. I hope your decision to have a permanent vacation will lift a great weight from your shoulders and that you will derive more joy from just being a far from ordinary core dev.
+1
Davin
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 2:38 PM, Eric Snow ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 at 10:42 Eric Snow ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com wrote:
In the short term we could appoint a *temporary* triumvirate to fill in as BDFL (with the intent to re-assess the situation in September if we haven't resolved on a permanent solution by then). That would allow us to maintain business-as-usual (and try out a triumvirate). If we go that route then I'd recommend Brett, Nick, and Barry.
I don't think we need a temporary solution while we digest this and
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 1:29 PM Brett Cannon brett@python.org wrote: figure out how we want to manage ourselves. Short of some horrible CoC catastrophe we can just hold off on making any final decisions on PEPs until a decision is made in how we want to handle PEPs going forward since Python 3.8 isn't hitting beta until May 2019 (and even if it was close we don't need to ever rush anything into a release as there's always the next release :) .
Agreed. I was hasty in posting that and don't foresee any issues where a temporary BDFL would matter. :)
-eric
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