On 01/05/2017 02:47 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> What could a "Chief Architect" do besides just pick one winner and
> have everybody else go elsewhere?

Isn't that a bit of a false dichotomy? You're implying that a single
architect couldn't come to the same conclusion as a committee. A BDFL
could easily decide that choice is important and ask developers to keep
that in mind going forward... pretty much exactly as the Council has done.

The 'B' part of BDFL is important.
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