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title: Who is your BDFL?
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date: 2025-01-11
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permalink: daily/2025/01/11/bdfl
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- software-development
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Most open source projects have a BDFL who makes the ultimate decisions for the project. Who is the BDFL in your codebase?
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Most open source projects have a BDFL (Benevolent dictator for life) who makes the ultimate decisions for the project.
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The ones who spring to mind are Dries, Fabien and Taylor for Drupal, Symfony and Laravel respectively.
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But what about your codebase?
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Who is the BDFL for your application?
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Who decides how features should be implemented or what standards to follow?
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Who ensures the codebase is consistent regardless of the feature being delivered or the file being read?
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If you don't have one, you should.
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