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Bdale Garbee elected Debian Project Leader

Posted by michael on from the hardly-any-hanging-chad dept.

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.

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  1. Offtopic by awptic · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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 :)

  2. Congratulations! by Enry · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I hope that your leadership takes a better stance on things like QA testing. Woody often has very simple bugs that would have been found had even the simplest of QA tests been done before submitting the package. One of the better examples was a permission problem that took three weeks (!) to solve!

    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.

    1. Re:Congratulations! by mal0rd · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I believe the problem is that the unstable packages recieve too little testing before being thrown into woody. Since debian stable is very outdated typical desktop users probably all want to run at list testing. So packages with bugs that make them worse then their predecessors or have a simple problem like you pointed out should stay in unstable.
      Only when the project is considered fairly-stable should it go into testing. That's what unstable is for.

  3. Re:Uhhhhhh.... by Russ+Nelson · · Score: 3, Interesting

    *You* can call him Barksdale Garbee the Third if you wish, but the rest of us call him Bdale.
    -russ

    --
    Don't piss off The Angry Economist
  4. Voting System by AmirS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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?