[jacobian]

Hi, former BDFL here. It's a crappy job. A crappy, unpaid job. I can't think of a single qualified person in the Python community who'd want the gig. (I can think of several unqualified people who would, and that's part of the problem too.)

[gonational]

TBH, I had kind of wished that one of you from the Django core would take the reigns next (preferably, you), as a BDFL, since Django was it an extremely well-run project, especially under your leadership.

I believe an open-source project is best run as some form of an oligarchy, but with democratic processes for gaining ideas and feedback.

In my opinion, this kind of shift towards complicated government structures is the end of high efficiency in open-source. The thing that makes many open-source projects so great, other than being open, is that they don’t have a burdensome corporate structure breathing down their necks; so they’re able to turn and burn on projects; they don’t fall prey to sunk cost fallacy as often (thinking back to the efforts to integrate Django Channels that were sidelined, or back further to the efforts at GSOC by some developer, 2 years in a row, to add composite key support, which were also sidelined - futile like this turn into disastrous sunk cost slow train wrecks in corporations, but instead teach us what it is that we don’t want in open-source projects); and only the carrot is in play, for the most part, no stick.

[JdeBP]

"To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem."

Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Fit The Twelfth

[ksec]

>It's a crappy job. A crappy, unpaid job.

Did Guido rage quit because of this?