LWN: Comments on "Debian Project Leader election 2025 edition"

Longer term?

Phantom_Hoover — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:49:06 +0000

I heard that one of the Herculaneum papyri might contain a manuscript of Cicero’s lost de debiani regis, actually.

Longer term?

jzb — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:30:19 +0000

They did? How many Linux releases did they manage to put out? Not even one.

Longer term?

Phantom_Hoover — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:20:46 +0000

1 year terms worked fine for the Romans!

Longer term?

guillemj — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 20:44:30 +0000

Anthony Towns lost reelection in 2007. Mehdi Dogguy lost reelection in 2017.

Longer term?

highvoltage — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:11:30 +0000

You're right, but like others have pointed out, re-election is possible if the voting Debian population feels confident in someone's abilities to drive things forward.

On the flip side, it's possible that a DPL just doesn't work out. Even if they're capable, their circumstances might change, or it might not just be as fulfilling as they have imagined.

Whatever the case might be for it not working out, a year is is short enough so that they can gracefully step back without too much embarrassment, or without being in the position for too long while having given up.

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jzb — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:50:30 +0000

Thanks for the clarification. I wanted to make it clear to readers that I didn't omit a reply in order to give Jackson the last word, or something like that.

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tille — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:42:58 +0000

s/voting/campaign/

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tille — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:40:07 +0000

"Tille did not respond to those points."
The reason is that the campain period ended at 2025-04-05 while the response from Jackson was sent at Sun, 6 Apr 2025. Candidates are not supposed to answer before or after the voting period.

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corbet — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:27:54 +0000

Bdale Garbee lost reelection in 2003;; I'm not sure if there are other examples.

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stefanor — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:23:53 +0000

If a DPL run for re-election they get re-elected (I can't recall any counter-examples). In many cases nobody even runs against them.

The job is a real time commitment, and we don't want to ask people to commit for multiple years. Really, we're giving our volunteer DPLs a chance to step back, every year.

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Trou.fr — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 15:43:27 +0000

I'm not familiar with Debian discussions but has there been any talk of electing a DPL for a longer term? 1 year seems awfully short to make any progress.