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Record Low Turnout in Debian Leadership Election
daria42 writes "A record low voter turnout - highlighted by the fact that two-thirds of the candidates have not yet cast their ballot - is marring the Debian Project's ongoing elections for the Debian Project Leader position. Project secretary Manoj Srivastava said yesterday: "At the time of writing, half an hour into the second week of the vote, we have the lowest participation ever in a Debian project leader election seen so far"."
... Debian is dying. (It had to be done.)
I, for the 199 voters, welcome our Debian Project Leader.
They're using Diebold's voting machines.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
The voting body is simply taking as much time to select a new project leader as they do to get new releases out.
In North Korea, only dead people cast votes via Diebold.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Debian is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Debian community when IDC confirmed that Debian market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Debian has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Debian is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict Debian's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Debian faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Debian because Debian is dying. Things are looking very bad for Debian. As many of us are already aware, Debian continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Debian is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Debian developer Manoj Srivastava only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Debian is dying.
All major surveys show that Debian has steadily declined in market share. Debian is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Debian is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Debian continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Debian is dead.
Fact: Debian is dying
Excuse me, I don't mean to impose, but I am the ocean
apt get vote
Your sig induced fear in me. Fear and surprise. The two things your sig invoked were fear, surprise and uncertainty. Three! Three things your sig invoked were fear, surprise, uncertainty and an AC posting.
Ahem. Amongst my many reactions to your sig were such diverse elements as fear, surprise, a ruthless dedication, um, er...can I post this again?
It appears that the root cause of the low voter turnout in the most recent election of a leader for the Debian project is that all of the potential voters are still compiling the latest version of Firefox on their Gentoo boxes and are unable to access the Internet to submit their votes.
Try to upgrade her box from Windows 95 first. Any of Win2k and later OS doesn't crash without a good reason (such as h/w failure.)
Security-wise there may be reasons to give her a Linux box, but in general if you want minimum headache then Windows will work for her just fine. Just make a c: partition image on a spare, unmounted partition and restore it automatically every week :-) Everything else she needs must be on a USB Flash disk.
Yes, Debian is the Hurd of distros. Only people who aren't complete idiots and aren't full of bull-shit use it.
And I get modded down as troll for pointing it out. Nice moderating. Again.
Debian confirms it?
I'll cast my vote again when I'm good and ready, and only once it's been ported to twelve different platforms.
Dictator has such negative connotations. I prefer to think of Linus like an elected monarch. Like queen Amidala but not as hot. Hmm... portman...
Let's face it: Debian just isn't very glamorous, and open source relies to a certain extent on glamor.
I know what you mean. Personally, I'm only into open source for the groupies.
Yeah, its almost as if moderation is done by more than one person with more than one opinion.
I'm Rick James with mod points biatch!
...they're running Debian Vote Stable.
They'll catch up with the current vote in two or three years.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
Quoting from the bug: As you can see, the ASPL 2.0 isn't even DFSG free, and moreover no one really is using this package. Expect it to be jetissoned from the archive RSN.
http://www.donarmstrong.com
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Thanks for that.