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Total biased takeaway [Please read all the github complete thread.]:

@jlozano:

> Hi, folks -- Juan from Kite here, thank you for the feedback, we appreciate it.

[...]

> We have decided to leave the feature as opt-out since many users have found it useful. [...]

@abe33

> [...] I've been an employee at Kite for over half a year now and this plugin is now officially maintained by Kite. [...]

I think that the BDFL system work in open source because it's too easy to fork the project. The old BDFL just transferred the power to a new BDFL, but it was not so clear for the community. There is a fork now, so if the situation doesn't improve and the users are unhappy, the Kite team will be the BDFL of an empty project without users.




Benevolent Dictator for Life for anyone else who was wondering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life




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