Withdraw most of my ownership in favor of Mark

This is a misleading headline; he&#x27;s removed himself from the some of the CODEOWNERS file entries on Github (he&#x27;s still on asyncio), which governs whose signoff you need to merge a PR. It&#x27;s not even clear this is really news.<p>No aspect of the actual &quot;ownership&quot; of Python&#x27;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.

&gt; I&#x27;m tired of not knowing whether I am actually asked for a review, so I&#x27;m withdrawing my &quot;ownership&quot; from the core interpreter<p>I am out of the loop on Python development, what do he means here?

... and merge without Mark&#x27;s review. :D<p>Imagine you wake up one day, and see that you get a bunch of code review requests &#x27;cause the old maintainer simply said &quot;This guy is the owner of this now&quot;.<p>(I&#x27;m pretty sure Mark is fine with this, and Guido already explained the situation to him, but kinda funny, nonetheless.)