Andreas Tille and Sruthi Chandran Running for Leadership of The Debian Project
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Bits from Debian: apt install dpl-candidate: Andreas Tille
The Debian Project Developers will shortly vote for a new Debian Project Leader
The Project Leader is the official representative of The Debian Project tasked with managing the overall project, its vision, direction, and finances.
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Bits from Debian: apt install dpl-candidate: Sruthi Chandran
The Debian Project Developers will shortly vote for a new Debian Project Leader known as the DPL.
The DPL is the official representative of representative of The Debian Project tasked with managing the overall project, its vision, direction, and finances.
The DPL is also responsible for the selection of Delegates, defining areas of responsibility within the project, the coordination of Developers, and making decisions required for the project.
Our outgoing and present DPL Jonathan Carter served 4 terms, from 2020 through 2024. Jonathan shared his last Bits from the DPL post to Debian recently and his hopes for the future of Debian.
Recently, we sat with the two present candidates for the DPL position asking questions to find out who they really are in a series of interviews about their platforms, visions for Debian, lives, and even their favorite text editors. The interviews were conducted by disaster2life (Yashraj Moghe) and made available from video and audio transcriptions: [...]
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Coverage from LWN:
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A look at the 2024 Debian Project Leader election
The nominations have closed and campaigning is underway to see who will be the next Debian Project Leader (DPL). This year, two candidates are campaigning for the position Jonathan Carter has held for four eventful years: Sruthi Chandran and Andreas Tille. Topics that have emerged so far include how the prospective DPLs would spend project money, their opinions on handling controversial topics, and project diversity.