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If you created a large, successful OSS project, would you want to be BDFL or move on after a period?
I see tradeoffs on both sides, although it's not a decision I've needed to make myself.
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The Carbon language has a notion of a 'painter', a designated person to handle design debates that are just bikeshedding ("choosing the colour").
Less dramatic than a BDFL, and a cute name.
https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/docs/project/evolution.md#painter
With Graydon Hoare no longer working on Rust, it's interesting to see that community build consensus without a BDFL.
I'm amused that the requests library has GitHub issue tags 'needs BDFL input' and 'minion seal of approval'.