The Operator That Dethroned a King: Python's Walrus Operator Story (techlife.blog)

Time to AI tell: 20 seconds? Still, interesting account of how Guido stepped down.

Also, what happened afterwards, which I wasn't aware of:

  > Guido’s departure left Python without a governance model for the first time in its history. What followed was genuinely impressive: the core developer community proposed, debated, and voted on no fewer than seven different governance PEPs (PEP 8010 through PEP 8016).
  > In December 2018, PEP 8016 — “The Steering Council Model” — won. Authored by Nathaniel J. Smith and Donald Stufft, it established a five-person steering council elected by core developers. The design philosophy was explicit: “Be boring. We’re not experts in governance, and we don’t think Python is a good place to experiment with new and untried governance models.”