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Who is your BDFL?

Most open source projects have a BDFL (Benevolent dictator for life) who makes the ultimate decisions for the project.

The ones who spring to mind are Dries, Fabien and Taylor for Drupal, Symfony and Laravel respectively.

But what about your codebase?

Who is the BDFL for your application?

Who decides how features should be implemented or what standards to follow?

Who ensures the codebase is consistent regardless of the feature being delivered or the file being read?

If you don't have one, you should.

- Oliver

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I'm an Acquia-certified Drupal Triple Expert with 18 years of experience, an open-source software maintainer and Drupal core contributor, public speaker, live streamer, and host of the Beyond Blocks podcast.