2024-11-19 ┃ RE: thenexusofprivacy
@thenexusofprivacy Yes! I agree with these points.
And yet there's too much leeway or wriggle room in the definition of BDFL, and that in practice BDFL is more of a vaguely defined social-cultural stereotype to label people with. Rather than something that is well understood and can be properly dealt with.
Somewhere along the lifecycle of a #FOSS project the social dynamics change, and maintainers should cope with that.
Maybe I'll write out some thoughts. Had an idea: social.coop/@smallcircles/1135…
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/113508285674953422
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/113508224930993093
@smallcircles well, i write a lot about Mastodon, where the BDFL agrees he's a BDFL and has been explicit about what he likes about the model. So that's the easy case! More generlaly, the […]
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