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Bdale Garbee elected Debian Project Leader
Daniel Stone writes "In results released by Project Secretary Manoj Srivastava today, Bdale Garbee was elected Project Leader ahead of Raphael Hertzog and Branden Robinson. Congratulations Bdale! And no CmdrTaco, the debs are not (quite) yet ready, but they *are* very close." The elections page has more information.
I'm glad that the elections are over, maybe Woddy will be released as stable now, and I can get a nice new 'unstable' debian box going!
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Random, useless fact: I type in startx entirely with my left hand.
His platform makes a good read: http://www.debian.org/vote/2002/platforms/bdale
I think his name is really Dale Gar. Someone put it through the Fat Albert "Weird Harold" filter giving is bDale Garbie.
"Scoobe, doobe, doobe. Wherbe arbe yoube?"
But there are .deb's for kde3 ready (*very* beta though) at :)
http://www.geniussystems.net/KDE3%20Experimental/
Many thanks to WhizNDR from #debian-kde on opn for many hours of work getting these ready
Better call Pat Sajak...I think someone needs to buy a vowel.
In other news, Boutros Boutros-Gahli will be running Red Hat....
(or perhaps just a spell check?
"...you can steal my woman, but you ain't done nuthin' smart."
I sure hope Bdale does a good job. If you ask me, anyone's better than that other clown, George W.
Who mediates your information?
You know a Linux distro is designed for zealots when they have would-be project leaders run campaigns with "platforms" that include such things as "helping make sure HP participates as a good citizen in the Debian and larger Open Source communities".
"I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." - George Bush
Clearly they were ranked according to the sillyness of their names.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
...for the perplexed, is actually a short form of "Barksdale", and is pronounced as "Bee-Dale".
I like interesting names like that.
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Am I a hipster-doofus?
Yeah, uh.. that's why it's funny. But, I guess that's why you posted anonymously?
Who mediates your information?
I've even heard that James Carville has already been hired as a campaign consultant to ensure victory of the .0a distro as compared to the 0.0c1 distro. "It's WAHH!"
Noooo.... his name is "Bdale", pronounced "Bee-Dale", which you would know if you even read the article.
This is a good point that I had not considered.
exim-tls bug
Saying that woody is for testing purposes is one thing, since I can accept occasional severe bugs that don't show up for a while. But simple install problems should be found BEFORE the .debs are submitted.
Even less informative than /. for a change, but hey.
http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?sid=650
Desperation is a stinky cologne
But "responsibility" does.
I just tried this. After about the 8th time, I sounded just like Porky Pig.
Shouldn't we wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide who to elect?
Remember "Bring 'em on"? *sigh
Freedom from using your own name? Come on, "responability" doesn't mean anything these days?
Not in any dictionary =I've= ever seen!
That's right...we can't hear anything bad about GNU/Linux or GNU/Debian/GNU.
And this damned Debian thing doesn't.. What a shame
...this is Barksdale Garbee and I pronounce 'Bdale' as 'Bee-Dale'."
Why bother.
I dunno, but judging by this, it seems like you'd be better off with Mandrake if you want a Woody. :)
if you use a good enough junk-filter, slashdot.org will display a single, *blank*, page
In results released by Project Secretary Manoj Srivastava today, Bdale Garbee was elected Project Leader ahead of Raphael Hertzog and Branden Robinson. Congratulations Bdale!
Manoj Srivastava? Bdale Garbee? Raphael Hertzog? Those are some kind of names! Maybe when they went to the court to have their names changed from John Doe, the judge did not have the foresight to just give them each the one name they actually spelled out correctly: Max Power.
Note to self: go to court today to have name changed. Any of the following will be acceptable: Hercules Rockefeller, Rembrandt Q. Einstein... and so on.
Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide.
how the fuck is this post a troll? it's actually pretty funny... if you've ever heard that old .au file that came with lots of linux distros for testing that your sound card worked (hello, my name is Linus Torvalds and i pronounce linux as linux)
note to moderators.. if you are too stupid to get the fucking joke, don't mod someone down
Why bother.
Maybe they should spend time packaging stuff and not electing "officials" and patting each other on the back.
I find their goals noble, but their organization and package collection is incredibly bloated.
They also discourage bug reports by exposing submitter email addresses on the web.
Of course the "apt-get rulez" folks will mod this down anyway, hence the AC.
Is all well and good, but supposing his campaign was funded by an evil megalomaniac software magnet with dishonourable ambitions. Said person could then get their hands on the source code then we'd all be up up shit creek.
Almost thought that Barbee had been elected as Debian Project Leader...
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"Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief."
*Sigh* Didnt anybody tell you, all of the Debian users and developers are 22 year old female blondes with soft breasts and blue eyes. We`d have a hard time getting a Woody! Whats that? Youre becoming a Debian developer?
loply.com
Bdale's election was a real blast from the past! In the mid-1980s, a bunch of us ham radio types were trying to get TCP/IP running on packet radio. Phil Karn (KA9Q) wrote a DOS program called "NET" which implemented the stack, a chat-style TELNET, FTP, SMTP and POP. Of course there were many variants and distros. The core maintainer of the code base was Bdale.
;-)
It's quite analogous, I think, to what Linus (Phil's role) and the various distro-maintainers (Bdale's role) do today. So Bdale is in that sense uniquely qualified.
And while Russ Nelson didn't say so (and he was another important player in the NOS/NET project), Bdale's real first name is Arthur. But I didn't tell you.
I think he meant "too".
Troll? It's funny... as in "har-har".
Stupid nazi moderator, hope you die soon.
And you'll read the following headline on /.
:-)
"Barbie releases woody"
That'll get you confused...
I am impressed by the way the voting system works in Debian, it appears to solve any obvious fraud problems associated with e-voting:
Each developer's vote has to be signed by their gpg secret key (the key itself signed by other debian developers and on the public debian keyring), so votes cannot be faked by developers.
Each developer is sent a secret token, which is hashed with their uid and a list of hashes against votes is publically posted - so each developer can check their vote has been counted correctly, without being able to determine whose the other votes were.
Are there any other electronic voting systems that do as well as this?
Hey! Some of us are brunettes!
Before Bdale went back to work for Hewlett-Packard, he worked with their spin off, Agilent Technologies. While he was there, he was my boss. Bdale impressed me from the minute I met him with his knowledge and experience. It was a great personal loss for me when he went to HP, but it has been a great thing for Debian. Expect great things from him!