Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader

[Thomas Jollans]

On 13/07/18 00:20, Roel Schroeven wrote:
> Yes, you read that right: Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader.
> 
> See his mail:
> (https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2018-July/005664.html)

Thanks for posting this here, Roel. Much appreciated.

Guido has been fantastic, and he will be missed in his well-deserved
retirement.

Of course I have complete faith that the core devs will do a great job
in the future steering Python forward. The Python community is sure to
prosper even if this unexpected change creates some minor temporary
challenges.

Threads like this, on the other hand, can make you worry for the soul of
Python.


> 
>> 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)
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