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I tried searching around, but found only April Fool announcement of GvR retirement: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0401/ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep

• jacobolus 17y ago
  He did talk about it in his keynote at the 2009 PyCon. Summary: http://pypap.blogspot.com/2009/06/pycon-2009-notes-march-28th.html http://pypap.blogspot.com/2009/06/pycon-2009-notes-march-28t... From there: > “I’m not retiring, but I’m tiring.” > doesn’t enjoy traveling like he used to > “I’m sort of thinking over the next five or > ten years to gradually fade away.” > Hopes in 5 years that the BDFL is not actually > leading the community anymore, more of a figurehead. > “Don’t look to me for guidance for everything.”