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Record Low Turnout in Debian Leadership Election

Posted by samzenpus on from the rock-the-vote dept.

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"."

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  1. Slashdot confirms... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... Debian is dying. (It had to be done.)

  2. That's because... by jd · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're using Diebold's voting machines.

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  3. In typical fashion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The voting body is simply taking as much time to select a new project leader as they do to get new releases out.

  4. Debian is dying. by Eric(b0mb)Dennis · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

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  5. apt get vote by Sean+Clifford · · Score: 4, Funny

    apt get vote

  6. Root cause of low voter turnout identified by Ingolfke · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  7. Re:One Meaning: by northcat · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, Debian is the Hurd of distros. Only people who aren't complete idiots and aren't full of bull-shit use it.

  8. Shouldn't it be by InfiniteWisdom · · Score: 4, Funny

    Debian confirms it?

  9. Re:The tyranny of the majority hurts Debian by dondelelcaro · · Score: 3, Funny
    Bug 280859. The packager forgot to package the runtime library FFS. 138 days old. Unfixed.
    There's a reason why this bug hasn't been fixed, and that reason is bug 289856.
    Quoting from the bug:
    Hi, my apologies for the late response.

    After the original report came in, I had a moment of doubt, and went back to
    check through the APSL 2.0. I came to pretty much the same conclusion (but I
    do think there needs to be some kind of review of the DFSG and commonly used
    new licenses, cf. Matthew's reply, yada yada).

    Here's what I'm going to do about it:

    * Propose that we remove howl from the archive in its entirety. It is not
    the most beautiful implementation, and it does not have enormous buy-in
    throughout the FOSS community so far (only 31 rdepends in sid atm).

    * Talk to the Debian GNOME team about how much pain this will inflict on
    them, offer to buy beer for them, etc.

    * Make a public statement about howl's removal, in the hopes of inspiring
    new, Free implementations to be finished (or written).

    "When there's public debate and mass hysteria, that's when the patches
    roll in." - Michael Meeks
    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.
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