Benevolent Dictator For Life
Benevolent Dictator For Life or BDFL is a title given to a small number of open source software development leaders. The term was coined in 1995 to refer to Guido van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language.[1][2] The BDFL resolves disputes or competing arguments within the community. The title originated shortly after van Rossum joined the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). It first appeared on a follow-up mail by Ken Manheimer to a meeting trying to create a semi-formal group overseeing Python development and workshops.[1]
BDFL should not be confused with the more common term for open source leaders, "benevolent dictator", which was popularized by Eric Raymond's essay Homesteading the Noosphere.[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.
Examples of people sometimes so entitled
- Guido van Rossum, creator of Python[4][5]
- Larry Wall, the creator of Perl
- Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux Kernel
- Patrick Volkerding, the creator of Slackware[6]
- Mark Shuttleworth calls himself the "Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator For Life", or SABDFL, and the Ubuntu community often uses this name to refer to him[7][8]
- Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss, for Django[9][10]
- Dries Buytaert, founder and leader of the Drupal project[11][12]
- Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress[13]
- Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the creator and leader of the Hudson project[14]
- Brian Aker, creator and leader of the Drizzle project[15]
- Woody Gilk, the creator and co-founder of Kohana[citation needed]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Guido van Rossum (July 31, 2008). [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}} "Origin of BDFL"]. {{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}}. Retrieved 2008-08-01.
- ↑ [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}} "Python Creator Scripts Inside Google"]. www.eweek.com. {{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}}. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
- ↑ Eric S. Raymond. [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}} "Homesteading the Noosphere"]. {{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}}. Retrieved 2008-08-01.
- ↑ [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}} "The Four Hundred--Next Up on the System i: Python"]. www.itjungle.com. {{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}}. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
- ↑ Guido van Rossum [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded|{{Expansion depth limit exceeded|http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid={{{Expansion depth limit exceeded}}} }} }} "Benevolent dictator for life"]. Linux Format. 2005-02-01. http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=10. Retrieved 2007-11-01.
- ↑ http://www.slackware.com/about/
- ↑ http://www.ubuntu.com/community/processes/governance
- ↑ [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}} "Ubuntu founder defuses rumors of impending Microsoft deal"]. arstechnica.com. {{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}}. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
- ↑ [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}} "Django committers"]. {{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}}.
- ↑ [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}} "DjangoCon Article"]. {{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}}. Retrieved 2008-09-09.
- ↑ [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}} "Dries set to be married!"]. {{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}}.
- ↑ [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}} "Urban Dictionary: BDFL"]. {{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}}.
- ↑ [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}} "The Way I Work"]. {{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}}. Retrieved 2009-06-20.
- ↑ [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}} "Continuous Integration with Hudson"]. {{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}}.
- ↑ [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}} "Describing Drizzle's Development Process"]. {{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}}.
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