Django went through this years ago; Jacob and Adrian, who were the "BDFLs" of the project at the start, stepped down. The current governance model is mostly ar

Django went through this years ago; Jacob and Adrian, who were the "BDFLs" of the project at the start, stepped down. The current governance model is mostly around consensus on the dev list. There's a "technical board" elected every release cycle from among the committers, to act as a tie-breaker when needed, and with veto power over DEPs (Django's equivalent of PEPs) and adding new committers. I don't know of a case where that veto power has ever been exercised, FWIW.