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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. Maybe Woody will be released soon... by NewbieSpaz · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  2. Platform by rubinson · · Score: 5, Informative

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

  3. 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 :)

  4. Bdale... by xcomputer_man · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...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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  5. 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.

  6. Already? by Decimal · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shouldn't we wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide who to elect?

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  7. Re:Debian's too political by Hiro+Antagonist · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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  8. 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

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  9. "Hello... by Lethyos · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...this is Barksdale Garbee and I pronounce 'Bdale' as 'Bee-Dale'."

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  10. Re:Debian's too political by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...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