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“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”

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2024 points randlet | 2 comments | 12 Jul 18 15:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bla2 ◴[12 Jul 18 16:02 UTC] No.17515883[source]▶
> I don't ever want to have to fight so hard for a PEP and find that so many people despise my decisions.

Leading a large open source project must be terrible in this age of constant outrage :-(

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sjm-lbm ◴[12 Jul 18 16:09 UTC] No.17515955[source]▶
It's PHP and not Python, but every time I read something like this from a major open source figure, I always think of this old PHP mailing list thread:

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50696

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Y_Y ◴[12 Jul 18 16:24 UTC] No.17516108[source]▶
That's a good read. I feel like the "customer is always right" mentality does quite a bit of harm to OSS support.

Also reminds me of that dev (who I can't seem to search up) who had their email printed as part of a open-source software license in a car manual and would get ridiculous email from people who had car trouble.

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1. bsg75 ◴[12 Jul 18 18:28 UTC] No.17517308[source]▶
An interesting debate: Are _users_ of FOSS "customers" ?
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2. dhimes ◴[12 Jul 18 19:56 UTC] No.17518102[source]▶
I think "consumers" is the better term.