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He did talk about it in his keynote at the 2009 PyCon.

Summary: http://pypap.blogspot.com/2009/06/pycon-2009-notes-march-28t...

From there:

> “I’m not retiring, but I’m tiring.”

> doesn’t enjoy traveling like he used to

> “I’m sort of thinking over the next five or

> ten years to gradually fade away.”

> Hopes in 5 years that the BDFL is not actually

> leading the community anymore, more of a figurehead.

> “Don’t look to me for guidance for everything.”




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