http://www.osnews.com/story/17482/Candidates_for_Debian_Project_Leader_Sound_Off Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:39:58 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?221135 http://osnews.com/thread?221135 Does one have to be a Debian developer to vote? Or is voting open to anyone? Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fignew) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?221136 http://osnews.com/thread?221136 You need to be a Debian Developer to vote on General Resolutions and Leadership elections.

See Debian Constitution for details.
http://www.debian.org/devel/constitutionEdited 2007-03-14 01:47 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (saxiyn) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?221198 http://osnews.com/thread?221198 "sound off" was like a "biggest poopy" competition! Can mean two things now it must these days. Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (littlewilliedetector) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?221230 http://osnews.com/thread?221230 It's a bit of a non-article. Candidates responded to a few email questions, though it's all rather vague and three candidates didn't respond at all.

If you want to know what the candidates stand for in any detail, better to check out this page which lists their platforms, imho:

http://www.debian.org/vote/2007/vote_001

To be frank, I'd have thought that some of the key folks at SuSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc., were better indicators than the DPL of where Linux is going and what it needs to do.

Last year only about one-third of Debian's electorate even voted in the DPL election at all. If a clear majority of Debian's own developers aren't interested, it's hard to see how a DPL can carry much weight inside or outside the project. In this Newsforge article, only one candidate mentions Debian's end-users, which is a bit scary too.Edited 2007-03-14 10:23 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (moleskine) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?221256 http://osnews.com/thread?221256 Sorry for off-topic posting but there's just been a release update for Etch: it's now scheduled for release in 2.4.2007.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/03/msg00012.html Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (da_Chicken) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?221302 http://osnews.com/thread?221302 wow, great news Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (yanik) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?221535 http://osnews.com/thread?221535 Sweet, that's my birthday. Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jlarocco) Comments