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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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His platform makes a good read: http://www.debian.org/vote/2002/platforms/bdale
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
...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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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!"
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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
Shouldn't we wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide who to elect?
Remember "Bring 'em on"? *sigh
Politics are a necessary evil for *any* group of people; after all, the political process is simply a means for resolving differences. In most technical organizations, the political structure is that of a theocracy (all worship Lord Ballmer, ohm...ohm...ohm...), an oligarchy (most companies, where the decisions are made by a select few at the top of the food chain), or a monarchy (where there is one chief who calls all the shots).
Politics really are everywhere, even if you don't want to recognize them as such.
I'm relieved to see that Debian is embracing a majoritarian democratic model, where the developers choose their leadership, instead of vice-versa, because it keeps Debian moving in the same direction as the community it serves. Furthermore, from what I've seen of the Debian political process, it really is quite civil compared to corporate infighting. After all, if you disagree with Debian, you're free to resign from the project; if you tick off your boss, you get to re-discover the joys of a college diet...
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Karma? Karma? I don't need no stinkin' karma.
*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
...this is Barksdale Garbee and I pronounce 'Bdale' as 'Bee-Dale'."
Why bother.
...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
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."
Said person already has their hands on the source code. In case you didn't notice Debian develops an Open Source operating system. Perhaps you're new here.
Semper Ubi Sub Ubi
"but the rest of us call him Bdale"
Fine. But how do you pronounce it?
(Lee-Nuhks?)
*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?
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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.
After reading your bio, while trying to make sense of your post and sig, I thought you would enjoy the piece "Some Past and Future Cliches Regarding Linux". At least do a search for "gun-toting libertarianism" if you don't feel like reading it all.
"I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"
If you had read more carefully, you would know that making sure HP participates as a good citizen in the Debian and larger Open Source communities is part of his current job description at HP, and was listed as one of his qualifications.
...and this lie crawls out of its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.'
It just matches the treasurer: Manoj Srivastava
Manoj is the Project Secretary.
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!