Despite the name "leader", the role of DPL is close to an ambassador with no power to tell other people what to.
The DPL appoints a handful of roles, then hand-on work is delegated and done by other people.
The drama on blogs and mailing lists is in no way representative of how most DDs feel about the project.
On the contrary, the project is growing in terms of contributors, packages and internal projects.
https://reproducible-builds.org/ mostly came out from Debian (see https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds )
Despite the name "leader", the role of DPL is close to an ambassador with no power to tell other people what to. The DPL appoints a handful of roles, then hand-on work is delegated and done by other people.
The drama on blogs and mailing lists is in no way representative of how most DDs feel about the project.