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Given that Guido is the "benevolent dictator", how does this proposal process work - he proposes it, and then he accepts it?
by brown9-2 17y ago
Given that Guido is the "benevolent dictator", how does this proposal process work - he proposes it, and then he accepts it?
- japherwocky 17y agohe proposes it, listens to the feedback, and makes his final decision.
- algorias 17y agothe "benevolent" part means he won't make any decision based solely on his own preferences, even though he has the authority to.
- stcredzero 17y agoLambdas?
- mst 17y agoI suspect it works how it always does for a BDFL (as I am for DBIx::Class in the perl world) - whoever likes proposes, if I like it I try and argue for it, only if there's a majority in favour does it get accepted anyway. Except that if there's no consensus decision after a long discussion I get to make the choice. And no matter how any decision was come to, it's my fault if it's wrong. Guido, Linus, and the various other BDFLs with important projects and actual talent seem to run things much the same way - I can't speak for their approaches but they largely inspired mine so I suspect I'm not completely wrong :)
- d3vvnull 17y agoI think Guido resigned from the BDFL position a little while ago.
- amackera 17y agoHate to break it to you, but it's BDFL.
- sp332 17y agoHe resigned as Director of the Python Software Foundation, but is still president. I don't think he resigned as BDFL. http://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/2005-03-24/ http://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/2005-03-24/