Adrian broke the news: today, he and I are retiring as BDFLs, transitioning to a truly community-run project.

Adrian wrote a bit about the history of the BDFL term and our roles wearing that hat. Go check out his writing for that, and for some of his personal thoughts. Here, I’ll just add a few things of my own:

For me, this has been a long time coming – I’ve been thinking about this for at least a year. In many ways, I this is a similar to a lot of the changes we’ve made over the years: it’s a formalization, and a naming, of what’s already happened. It’s clear to me I don’t have the sort of day-to-day involvement that I once had, and I can’t remember the last time I’ve had to make the sort of dictatorial decisions that the title implies.

So it seems the BDFL Pronounced that Django is the Python web framework.

Obviously this makes me pretty damn happy. I’m sure this will help people trying to choose a web framework come to Django, and I think they’ll like what they find. Personally, I think Django’s the best tool to develop web sites – but of course I think that.

However, I want to make sure everyone has read Kevin Dangoor’s thoughts on the announcement. Kevin’s an awesome guy, a great programmer, and although I disagree with a few details here and there [1], the general gist is spot on.