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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. 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 Master+Bait · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hey, I got an idea! Maybe they should work out a system where Debian has three presidents, one elected per year for a three year term on a quasi-lazy Susan, stack-based basis.

      The newest president would be called Testing and everybody would go to him for real everyday issues. The second president (second year in office) would be called Unstable and he would work with the greybeards out in the field helping tham to keep their ancient computers running. Then, in the last year in office, the president would be called Stable and he (or she) appears on panels at universitys and trade shows and awards dinners.

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      "Only in their dreams can men truly be free 'twas always thus, and always thus will be."
      --Tom Schulman
  2. Politics... by BladeMelbourne · · Score: 5, Funny

    A wise man once said: If Debian spent less time encouraging politics and more time developing, packaging and testing, Debian stable would have more up2date software versions.

    I forgot who said it. Doesn't matter anyway.

  3. Re:RMS? by psamuels · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Guess that depends on what you mean by freedom. Richard Stallman disagrees quite publicly with the Debian Project in the matter of the GNU Free Documentation License the Project does not consider it sufficiently free.

    Some of you will think it is heresy to regard a license from the Free Software Foundation as insufficiently free. Heresy or not, though, I agree with the Debian Project: the GFDL imposes some onerous restrictions on what users can do with the licensed work, and Stallman seems unwilling to drop some of these restrictions.

    As it happens (bringing us back on topic), the first nominee for Debian Project Leader 2005, Matthew Garrett, features prominently in the above document detailing why RMS's documentation license is not free enough.

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    "How can you claim that you are anti-crack, while still writing a window manager?" — Metacity README