In article <mailman.173.1126284529.509.python-list at python.org>, Dave Brueck <dave at pythonapocrypha.com> wrote: > >Many projects (Python-related or not) often seem to lack precisely >what has helped Python itself evolve so well - a single person with >decision power who is also trusted enough to make good decisions, such >that when disagreements arise they don't typically end in the project >being forked (the number of times people disagreed but continued to >contribute to Python is far higher than the number of times they left >to form Prothon, Ruby, and so on). > >In the end, domain-specific BDFLs and their projects just might have >to buble to the top on their own, so maybe the best thing to do is >find the project you think is the best and then begin contributing and >promoting it. You've got a point there -- reStructuredText seems to be succeeding precisely in part because David Goodger is the BDFNow. -- Aahz (aahz at pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ The way to build large Python applications is to componentize and loosely-couple the hell out of everything.
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