Remove role of BDFL and reform the Steering Council into Project Leaders#178
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Remove role of BDFL and reform the Steering Council into Project Leaders#178
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This is an update to our Governance document. The main changes are: 1. Remove the role of BDFL. I don't like the special treatment and I want to be able to be kicked off of the project if I become a problem. 2. Reform the Steering Council into "Project Leaders". The council gave the impression that this is a temporary elected position but we don't operate like that. The Project Leaders are still elected but change the language and idea to that of long term stewardship of the project. 3. Minor tweaks to the Community Manager role and the text of other roles to be compatible with the changes above.
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[Nēnē](https://nene.leouieda.com/) is a static site generator that I develop. It's more flexible than sphinx for making static websites that aren't documentation. We had to battle sphinx a lot to get the website the way we wanted. And using sphinx didn't really make it easier for other people to contribute to the website. Rewriting it with Nene makes some things easier on the templating side because we can store variables and other data in YAML files and then use the templating code inside the Markdown pages themselves. The result is much more readable code and less copy-pasting. The new page doesn't use bootstrap and is much lighter since it's all hand-made CSS. The font and general style are preserved. The pages have been simplified and merged to avoid duplication of information. The redirects for the calendar and good-first-issues have been retained but not the redirects for older versions of the docs. From the plausible data, those pages didn't seem to have many hits anyway. The new about page doesn't list all of the authors anymore since that was a nightmare to maintain. Instead, it lists the current governance structure (fatiando/community#178).
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This is an update to our Governance document. The main changes are: