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.

Comments

Platform

[rubinson]

His platform makes a good read: http://www.debian.org/vote/2002/platforms/bdale

Bdale...

[xcomputer_man]

...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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Re:HEADLINE CORRECTION!

[Anonymous Coward]

From this post, Bdale explains the reason for his name:

Since I'm sure some of you are curious, Bdale is a contraction of Barksdale, and I pronounce it "Bee-Dale".

And the Debian Planet article

[evil_one]

Even less informative than /. for a change, but hey. http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?sid=650

Re:Debian's too political

[Anonymous Coward]

...they used proportional representation, I always thought.

Actually, they used Condorcet's method, which is superior to all other single-winner voting methods (trust the Debian project to get something like this right!). In any case, *no* voting method which yields a single-winner can be a form of proportional representation.

For an explanation of Debian's excellent method of choosing Project Leaders, see:

http://www.electionmethods.org/CondorcetEx.htm

Alex Berkman

Re:Offtopic

[damiam]

KDE 3 will not be in Woody. This is in no way related to the lack of packages. Packages could have been released the day KDE3 came out and it still wouldn't be in Woody, because it's a brand-new .0 release without much testing and doesn't belong in the "stable" distribution.