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

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2024 points randlet | 1 comments | 12 Jul 18 15:22 UTC | HN request time: 1.233s | source
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jacquesm ◴[12 Jul 18 18:52 UTC] No.17517514[source]▶
Reading that thread is like reading an actual Monty Python plot.

Guido van Rossum has given his life for this language and besides the obligatory 'thanks for all the fish' there isn't even a single person who stops the clock to evaluate what went wrong that they pushed out the person that started this all.

Instead it's 'kthxbye' and they're already dividing up the cake to see who gets to rule.

Not the nicest moment in the history of FOSS, I wonder what kind of a mess will ensue when Linus steps down.

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1. oliwarner ◴[12 Jul 18 19:42 UTC] No.17517967[source]▶
I don't read it like that at all.

There's certainly a friendly nod to the CoC and an invitation for people not willing to adhere to it to leave —and I think that alone would help chill things out— but it's a sustained level of often-thankless hard work. Especially if you have a day job where they're pushing for more and more performance.

This missive is about helping the project move on, not himself. Bollocking the people who have made things hard isn't a productive next step. It's not what's required now; the core devs need to work out how decisions are made.

This is that prompt.