Linked by David Adams on Fri 18th Apr 2008 16:17 UTC, submitted by da_Chicken
iTWire interviews the newly-elected Debian Project Leader, Steve McIntyre. "A few days back, the project concluded its elections for the year and Steve McIntyre emerged as the victor in a three-cornered contest. McIntyre may well be the most watched elected official of a non-profit group - the direction the project takes is of vital concern to a great many businesses."
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Well, as I've come to get accustomed to, silence there usually means the mills are running at full capacity. Too much noise often meant exploding debates and longish argument-exchanges...
Yes. Back before they had competition in their own back yard, the list-bickering escalated to excessive proportions. And release times seemed to increase in proportion to the amount of bickering, as did the frequency of use of the "It's ready when it's ready/Debian devs are perfectionists" defense. Aside from a rather nasty spat of bickering relatively late in the development cycle of Etch, which involved a formal vote on the impeachment of the current DPL, among other unpleasantries, list-bickering was greatly decreased, and the release cycle was remarkably short (for Debian). And, wonder of wonders, I've not heard complaints about the quality of Etch, so I guess Etch was "ready when it's ready" rather sooner than its predecessors.
Edited 2008-04-19 18:27 UTC
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All I can say - as an outsider but long time [~9 years] user - is that those guys would need an un-imaginably large pat on the backs for their work.
Well, as I've come to get accustomed to, silence there usually means the mills are running at full capacity. Too much noise often meant exploding debates and longish argument-exchanges but, in the end, stable was always trustable and testing has always been up-to-date and usually more stable than lots of other hyped distros [yes, that is my opinion].
This time [leader election] is always a good opportunity to look back and respect the road they[Debian]'ve come along, their contribution has been huge, no matter if you just look at Debian itself, or the spinoffs that used their base.