I tried searching around, but found only April Fool announcement of GvR retireme...

jacobolus · on Oct 22, 2009

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

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.”