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Debian Project Nominations Opened

Posted by timothy on from the deep-infrastructure dept.

robstah writes "The Debian project have announced the opening of nominations for this year's Debian Project Leader (DPL) elections. The first nomination, that of Matthew Garrett (of Dasher fame) has also been announced on Debian Planet."

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  1. RMS? by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Other than maybe Eben Moglen, I can't think of anyone who would defend the purity of Debian more strongly than Richard Stallman. The Debian project has always been about providing a Free operating system that works great rather than a semi-Free operating system. This is in line with RMS's original goal of Hurd (which is booting now!).

    Let Freedom ring!

  2. why every year? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful
    how do you get anything done when the leader is changing every year?

    Sounds like democracy on steriods. large projects need benevolent dictators!

    1. Re:why every year? by Mr.Ned · · Score: 4, Insightful

      FreeBSD and NetBSD seem to get a lot done without a benevolent dictator. One reason for their success may be that there aren't as many 'developers' with commit access - they don't have a 'developer' for every two or three programs in the archive as Debian does.

      On a different scale, the Apache project is quite successful without a benevolent dictator, and it's just one of many.

  3. Re:Distribution Names by True+Grit · · Score: 4, Insightful
    to stale, rusting and broken...


    Sigh, the folks who modded this funny have obviously never used Debian Sid for awhile.

    Look, for cryin' out loud people, there are people like me who been running on Debian Sid (unstable) for YEARS. At least 5 so far, long enough that I can't even keep track, and in all that time I can count the number of serious problems on just one hand (and yes, I only have 5 fingers per hand just like all other humans).

    All it takes is some common sense to have great stability with the up2date software you want. The rule is really simple, if a little heretical: DON'T USE APT-GET. Use aptitude; upgrade what you need and keep everything else on hold until upgrades are forced because of dependencies. Don't bloody update everything everyday, thats just asking for trouble. Only upgrade on significant version changes, don't upgrade large packages when they first hit debian.org, wait 24-48 hours and see if anything bad shakes out. Really people, its not that hard.

    Sorry, for the tissy response, but those of us who KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE that Debian Sid is not "broken" are getting really tired of the lame jokes.