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  • I once knew a Pythonista who wanted to comment on this blog, but the BDFL turned down his PEP.

    Laissez-Fairing: Rules vs. Aerodynamics BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • Use Distribute instead of setuptools as the BDFL himself supports it.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010

  • There is of course a price - you can't have a BDFL (which many FOSS projects do), you have to report to the board every month first and then every 3 months, you have to follow a certain decision making process we call the

    general@incubator.apache.org Archives 2010

  • There is of course a price - you can't have a BDFL (which many FOSS projects do), you have to report to the board every month first and then every 3 months, you have to follow a certain decision making process we call the Apache Way etc. etc..

    general@incubator.apache.org Archives 2010

  • The BDFL, having shepherded Python development for 20 years, officially announces his retirement, effective immediately.

    Planet Python 2009

  • Mark is the dotcom millionaire founder of Canonical, first patron of KDE and the self-appointed benevolent dictator for life (BDFL) of Ubuntu.

    tuxmachines.org - Do you waddle the waddle? 2009

  • Guido (the BDFL) has already expressed openness to accepting a patch set to the CPython tree that could optionally enable or disable the GIL or, if some enterprising individual wanted to, to implement the interpreter in such a way as to remove the GIL entirely without sacrificing single threaded performance.

    Planet Python 2009

  • The BDFL, having shepherded Python development for 20 years, officially announces his retirement, effective immediately.

    Planet Python 2009

  • In the past, keeping an open source project together under a single repository was key to successful collaboration, and threats to fork a project would be a way of keeping a BDFL in check.

    Paul Downey 2009

  • Active community members may freely use the TWiki brand for commercial and non-commercial purposes, with a license that is perpetual, without royalty, not subject to revocation, etc. BDFL role.

    TWiki.Codev 2008

  • Although Ubl will happily tout how many non-Googlers contribute to AMP code, at the end of the day, he works at Google and is the BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life) on the AMP project.

    Inside Google’s plan to make the whole web as fast as AMP Dieter Bohn 2018

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  • hugovk commented on the word BDFL

    BDFL, n. Benevolent Dictator For Life

    Brett Cannon, 02 January 2016:

    And at least for me, the fact Guido prefers GitHub means something. While Guido himself would say I shouldn't really worry about his preferences since he is only an occasional contributor at this point, I believe that it's important that our BDFL actually like contributing to his own programming language rather than potentially alienating him because he finds the process burdensome.

    January 31, 2016