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The April 1 edition of the Debian Weekly News is out. It looks at the Project Leader election, running Sid on a laptop, the Debian Desktop User's Guide, improvements in the new maintainer process ("it should now be possible to join the project within three days"), the possibility that Linux could be illegal to sell to minors in Germany, and quite a few other topics.

Here are the results from the 2003 Debian Project Leader election. The winner is Martin Michlmayr, who beat Moshe Zadka, Branden Robinson and (present Project Leader) Bdale Garbee for the post.

An announcement has gone out regarding Alioth, a SourceForge installation dedicated to the Debian Project. It's available to projects that are part of Debian itself, or which feature heavy involvement by a Debian developer.

Martin Michlmayr provides a few Bits from the next DPL, as he prepares for the coming year as DPL.

James Troup takes a look at some new sections in the Debian archive.

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Posted Apr 3, 2003 7:08 UTC (Thu) by bignose (subscriber, #40) [Link]

"improvements in the new maintainer process ("it should now be possible to join the project within three days")"

Ahem, looks like you fell for the April Fools joke. The "improvements" were in the form of an on-line questionnaire, that supposedly replaced most of the new maintainer process with a set of serious-sounding but all-too-easy questions.

Submit the form, and you'd be told that a Debian maintainer should not fall for such an obvious trick, i.e. you failed :-)