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> benevolent dictator is not significantly worse I think your normative justification for project dictatorship misses the more important point: there's probabl

> benevolent dictator is not significantly worse I think your normative justification for project dictatorship misses the more important point: there's probably a dictatorship either way. In these cases, the main advantage of the overt dictatorship model over the layer of indirection dictatorship model is that you at least know who's really in charge. In some odd sense, the mod team that just resigned is in agreement: their resignation lays vare exactly who's in charge.

raxxorrax 5y ago
The benevolent dictator might have too much sway in some project, although in most cases it literary is his project. Problem with enforcing compliance of behavior is that this becomes the raison d'être. This will always fail in any configuration at some point. We are talking about people and if their rulings don't find acceptance, they will interpret it as a personal attack. I am not above that, you are not above that and nobody really is. I have no info about this case, but it fits the profile. I only take active part in smaller OSS projects and corporate rules in general do suck the fun out of it. Maybe Rust is beyond that, but I would vastly prefer the eccentric dictator to corporate HR, because the latter is nothing else. The dictator or developer has other ambitions aside from behavior enforcement, so it is easier to cooperate. And if you do not like the dictator, you might be able to fork the project and make it conform to your personal views to the same (overbearing) degree. Win-win.