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by tptacek 753 days ago
This is a misleading headline; he's removed himself from the some of the CODEOWNERS file entries on Github (he's still on asyncio), which governs whose signoff you need to merge a PR. It's not even clear this is really news.

No aspect of the actual "ownership" of Python's code has changed.
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devnonymous 753 days ago
He stepped away from being the 'BDFL' back in 2018[1] so yeah, this isn't really news worthy.

[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/python-committers@python.org/ms...

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dang 753 days ago
(Submitted title was "Guido van Rossum drops ownership of the core Python interpreter code". We've reverted it now.)
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mbreese 753 days ago
Does it at least mark the end of an era? Even if it doesn’t have any legal meaning, it could still mark a significant milestone — especially if you look at the future of the language. It’s now in the hands of the next generation of maintainers (at least as far as PRs go).

But as others have said - I’m not sure what this really changes.

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devnonymous 753 days ago
That would have been his 12 July, 2018 announcement.
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