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

Re:Maybe Woody will be released soon...

[Ed Avis]

As someone who knows nothing about Debian... perhaps they should use a different method for deciding their release schedule. OpenBSD has a regular release every six months, LaTeX every twelve months. Both of these have in common with Debian that they are a collection of packages from different sources. There's no way that Debian can plan and organize XFree86, Linux, gcc, Apache etc etc to all work to a single release cycle - they are completely out of phase with each other. Nothing wrong with that. But given this situation, the best release strategy is surely to pick an arbitrary date and go with whatever is available at that time. Debian does put a lot of effort into finishing each distribution once the deadline is known, but IMHO the release date should be known right from the start, as in 'it's always the fifteenth of August'.

Or even every week - 'It's Friday, it's six o'clock, and it's Debian New Release Time!'. That might be taking it a bit far.