This is a misleading headline; he's removed himself from the some of the CODEOWNERS file entries on Github (he's still on asyncio), which governs whose signoff you need to merge a PR. It's not even clear this is really news.<p>No aspect of the actual "ownership" of Python's code has changed.
This seems to be about GitHub’s annoying CODEOWNERS feature where every matching user in the CODEOWNERS file is forcefully added as a reviewer of opened PRs.<p>To my knowledge this “feature” can’t be toggled independently and in my experience often drastically reduces the signal-to-noise ratio of GitHub notifications for people in a CODEOWNERS file.<p>I wish GitHub allowed this to be configured. You either get this functionality <i>and</i> enforced code owner approval, or neither.
This is the last of his “George Washington” moments - a peaceful handover of power with barely any fuss.<p>Over the twenty something years I have been watching python development, there has always been ”grownups in the room” - reasonable people making the best decisions they can manage. (Not always perfect, not always calm and without incident but overall, solid.<p>Python really has been an exemplar on how to manage an open project, and this marks a multi year long process of peaceful handover of power.<p>Nice one Guido.
Can somebody explain what Guido van Rossum has been doing from a day to day perspective on core Python since he stepped down from BDFL? I’m asking in good faith as I don’t follow Python that closely and am curious what he has done since 2018.
> I'm tired of not knowing whether I am actually asked for a review, so I'm withdrawing my "ownership" from the core interpreter<p>I am out of the loop on Python development, what do he means here?
... and merge without Mark's review. :D<p>Imagine you wake up one day, and see that you get a bunch of code review requests 'cause the old maintainer simply said "This guy is the owner of this now".<p>(I'm pretty sure Mark is fine with this, and Guido already explained the situation to him, but kinda funny, nonetheless.)