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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Benevolent dictator for life (BDFL) is a title given to a small number of open-source software development leaders, typically project founders who retain the final say in disputes or arguments within the community. The phrase originated in 1995 with reference to Guido van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language.[1][2]

History

Shortly after Van Rossum joined the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, the term appeared in a follow-up mail by Ken Manheimer to a meeting trying to create a semi-formal group that would oversee Python development and workshops; this initial use included an additional joke of naming Van Rossum the "First Interim BDFL". According to Rossum, the title was most likely created by Ken Manheimer or Barry Warsaw.[1]

In July 2018, Van Rossum announced that he would be stepping down as BDFL of Python without appointing a successor, effectively eliminating the title within the Python community structure.Template:R

Usage

BDFL should not be confused with the more common term for open-source leaders, "benevolent dictator", which was popularized by Eric S. Raymond's essay "Homesteading the Noosphere" (1999).[3]

Among other topics related to hacker culture, Raymond elaborates on how the nature of open source forces the "dictatorship" to keep itself benevolent, since a strong disagreement can lead to the forking of the project under the rule of new leaders.Template:Fact

Referent candidates

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Name Project Type Reference
Sylvain Benner Spacemacs Community-driven Emacs distribution [4]
Vitalik Buterin Ethereum Blockchain-based cryptocurrency [5]Template:Better source needed
Dries Buytaert Drupal Content management framework [6]
François Chollet Keras Deep learning framework [7]
Evan Czaplicki Elm Front-end web programming language [8][9]
Laurent Destailleur Dolibarr ERP CRM Software suite for enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management [10]
David Heinemeier Hansson Ruby on Rails Web framework [11]
Rich Hickey Clojure Programming language [12]
Adrian Holovaty
and Jacob Kaplan-Moss 		Django Web framework [13]
Andrew Kelley Zig Programming language [14][15]
Xavier Leroy OCaml Programming language [16][17]
Haoyuan Li Alluxio Data Orchestration System [18]
Miles Lubin JuMP Mathematical optimization modeling language in Julia [19]
Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz) Ruby Programming language [20]
Wes McKinney Pandas Python data analysis library [21]
Gavin Mendel-GleasonTemplate:Efn TerminusDB Open-source graph database for knowledge graph representation [22][23]
Bram MoolenaarTemplate:Dagger Vim Text editor [24]
Matt MullenwegTemplate:Efn WordPress Content management framework [25]
Martin Odersky Scala Programming language [26]
Taylor Otwell Laravel Web framework [27][28]
Theo de Raadt OpenBSD A Unix-like operating system Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Arnold Robbins Awk, Gawk Programming language [29]
Eugen Rochko Mastodon Open source, decentralized social network [30]
Ton RoosendaalTemplate:Efn Blender 3D computer graphics software [31]
Sébastien Ros Orchard Project Content management system [32]
Mark ShuttleworthTemplate:Efn Ubuntu Linux distribution [33]
Jeremy Soller Redox Operating system [34]
Don SymeTemplate:Efn F# Programming language [35]
Linus TorvaldsTemplate:Efn Linux Operating system kernel [11][36]
José Valim Elixir Programming language [37]
Pauli Virtanen SciPy Python library used for scientific and technical computing [38][39]
Patrick Volkerding Slackware GNU/Linux distribution [40]
Nathan Voxland Liquibase Database schema management [41]
Jimmy Wales Wikimedia Foundation Collaborative knowledge project [42]Template:Efn-lr
Jeremy Walker Exercism Open-source programming education platform [43]
Shaun Walker DotNetNuke Web application framework [44]
Larry Wall Perl Programming language [45]
Evan You Vue.js JavaScript MVVM framework for building user interfaces and single-page applications. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Soumith Chintala PyTorch Deep learning framework [46]
Martin Traverso, Dain Sundstrom, David Phillips Trino SQL query engine [47]
Kohsuke Kawaguchi Jenkins Automation server [48]
Gabor de Mooij RedBeanPHP Database object relational mapper [49]
Bram Cohen BitTorrent Peer-to-peer file sharing protocol [50]
Walter Bright D (programming language) Programming language Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Ritchie Vink Polars Data analysis framework [51]
William Falcon PyTorch Lightning Deep learning framework [52]
Lars Hvam abapGit Git client for ABAP [53]
Sebastián Ramírez FastAPI Web framework for building APIs with Python [54]
Bill Hall (gingerBill) Odin Programming language [55]
Damien Elmes (dae) Anki Spaced repetition system [56][57]

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