The thing is that the BDFL was never appointed as such, either. The project's founder is Ciaran Gultnieks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciaran_Gultnieks https

The thing is that the BDFL was never appointed as such, either. The project's founder is Ciaran Gultnieks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciaran_Gultnieks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciaran_Gultnieks and Ciaran, while largely silent, still "holds the master keys" (figuratively and somewhat literally). As an F-Droid member myself, albeit a completely tangential and pointless one, the only things I know about why Hans is _de facto_ leader and cannot be overridden even by the bodies created for overseeing the entire project are a couple of factors mentioned right here: that he is the only one with Owner access on GitLab, and that he is Technical Lead, "initially", in the board: https://f-droid.org/en/2023/03/20/f-droid-board.html https://f-droid.org/en/2023/03/20/f-droid-board.html