Debian Project Leader Election 2011 Results

[Posted April 16, 2011 by corbet]

From:		Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx <secretary-AT-debian.org>
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Subject:		Debian Project Leader Election 2011 Results
Date:		Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:31:39 +0200
Message-ID:		<20110416153139.GA16653@roeckx.be>
Cc:		debian-vote-AT-lists.debian.org, debian-project-AT-lists.debian.org
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Hi,

The winner of the election is Stefano Zacchiroli.

His new term will start on April 17th, 2011.

The details of the results shall soon be available at:
http://vote.debian.org/2011/vote_001

In the mean time the results are also available at:

            
            
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Debian Project Leader election 2011 results

Posted Apr 18, 2011 8:09 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (11 responses)

Hm. Elections with just one candidate.

What next, comrades?

Debian Project Leader election 2011 results

Posted Apr 18, 2011 11:44 UTC (Mon) by LightDot (guest, #73140) [Link] (1 responses)

Did you try to become a candidate and were refused for some reason? Or do you know of someone else who was?

Debian Project Leader election 2011 results

Posted Apr 18, 2011 12:41 UTC (Mon) by incase (guest, #37115) [Link]

Of course he wasn't and doesn't. It's just that no one but Zac applied for the "job".

Debian Project Leader election 2011 results

Posted Apr 18, 2011 15:43 UTC (Mon) by tao (subscriber, #17563) [Link] (8 responses)

In all Debian elections there's also the "None of the above" candidate. If NOTA had won over Zac, then there would've been a new round of nominations.

But I guess you're just trolling.

Debian Project Leader election 2011 results

Posted Apr 18, 2011 15:57 UTC (Mon) by lolando (guest, #7139) [Link]

I took that as a witticism myself. There are enough trolls everywhere, no need to look for more :-)

Debian Project Leader election 2011 results

Posted Apr 18, 2011 16:15 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (6 responses)

Mostly yes, it's trolling.

However, elections with just one candidate almost always indicate that there are problems somewhere.

Debian Project Leader election 2011 results

Posted Apr 18, 2011 16:56 UTC (Mon) by MisterIO (guest, #36192) [Link] (5 responses)

That's true for a country, but for a project like Debian it most likely just means that the current leader did a good job.

Debian Project Leader election 2011 results

Posted Apr 18, 2011 18:02 UTC (Mon) by xtifr (guest, #143) [Link] (4 responses)

In fact, given that project leader tends to be a thankless task, and that numerous previous project leaders have declined to run after a single term in office, Debian may be lucky that they were able to come up with as many candidates as they did!

Debian Project Leader election 2011 results

Posted Apr 18, 2011 21:16 UTC (Mon) by ewan (guest, #5533) [Link] (3 responses)

I think that's the interesting part of this - was there just one candidate because the other potential DPLs all thought he was doing a good job, or because no-one else wanted to do it. And if it's the latter, is there a risk to Debian of not being able to find anyone prepared to be DPL in future?

Debian Project Leader election 2011 results

Posted Apr 18, 2011 21:18 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (1 responses)

I believe it's the former; Stefano seems to be one of the most energetic and effective leaders the project has had in some time.

Debian Project Leader election 2011 results

Posted Apr 21, 2011 0:34 UTC (Thu) by bdale (subscriber, #6829) [Link]

I agree, and asserted as much in the interview recently posted here.

Debian Project Leader election 2011 results

Posted Apr 21, 2011 11:52 UTC (Thu) by stevem (subscriber, #1512) [Link]

Zack's been doing an awesome job, and has won a lot of support for that.

Steve (previous DPL)

Debian Project Leader Election 2011 Results

Posted Apr 19, 2011 2:24 UTC (Tue) by Hausvib6 (guest, #70606) [Link]

Congratulations for Stefano Zacchiroli.

Given the election method yet people still elected him even though he's the only candidate, I'm sure this is because of his excellent leadership in the first term.

Debian Project Leader Election 2011 Results

Posted Apr 19, 2011 6:16 UTC (Tue) by branden (guest, #7029) [Link]

Congratulations, Stefano!

Debian Project Leader Election 2011 Results

Posted Apr 21, 2011 8:03 UTC (Thu) by zack (subscriber, #7062) [Link]

Thanks everybody!

(... and for the folks worrying about a forthcoming "communist revolution" within Debian, don't worry too much: it is on my TODO list, but it is far lower than the "total world domination" item :-P)