Conversely, projects without clear leadership include rust (recently) and R, and I think they suffer for it. A very widespread system for organising people is

Conversely, projects without clear leadership include rust (recently) and R, and I think they suffer for it. A very widespread system for organising people is to have a single responsible decision-maker, supported, monitored and advised by a committee. We see that through politics and business, and a lot of the best open source projects seem to do the same thing.