Re:New Debian Project Leader elected: Lucas Nussbaum
by oellegaard on Sunday April 14, 2013 @03:11PM
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Slightly OT: How does it work? Who gets to vote and who can run for project leader? I never realized that there were open source projects where that many people were involved in voting a project leader.
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Re:New Debian Project Leader elected: Lucas Nussbaum
by liw on Sunday April 14, 2013 @03:27PM
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The Debian project constitution lays out the rules:
http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution
The vote page on our website has more practical information: http://www.debian.org/vote/
Re:New Debian Project Leader elected: Lucas Nussbaum
by lifeisstillgood on Sunday April 14, 2013 @07:55PM
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Do you remember Starship Troopers, where serving in the military gave you citizenship, and citizenship gave you the right to vote.
Well, in the Debian project, citizenship is a commit bit. And the project leader is kept on till he's dead or they find someone better.
Re:New Debian Project Leader elected: Lucas Nussbaum
by emillon on Monday April 15, 2013 @03:46AM
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The DPL is elected among Debian Developers using a Condorcet method. Every voter gives a preference order between the candidates[1], and if there exists a candidate who would win against any other candidate, he's the winner. For example here is the graph of this election[2].
[1]: http://vote.debian.org/~secretary/leader2013/tally.txt [2]: http://vote.debian.org/~secretary/leader2013/results.png
