[jdoliner]

Yeah it's hard to see how Peter can reconcile:

> Russ failed to convince the committee that it was necessary, and we therefore didn’t outright agree to modiying dep to leverage/enforce it.

and

> The community of contributors to dep were ready, willing, able, and eager to evolve it to satisfy whatever was necessary for go command integration.

If you're willing to say: "Sorry BDFL, you didn't convince us this was necessary so we're not doing it." Then you're not willing to do whatever is necessary, BDFL objections are necessities. Peter and Sam just found out what happens when an unstoppable force meets a quite movable object.

I agree with the sentiment that Russ's only mistake here was leading them on for too long. I see this as an argument in favor of Linus' style of BDFLing, in this case he would have cussed them out over their design's flaws and told them in no uncertain terms that it was never getting merged and probably that they were stupid. It would have hurt more at the time, but also probably would have saved them a ton of time and, in the long run, might have even hurt less.