https://www.itwire.com/open-source/jonathan-carter-wins-race-to-lead-debian-for-next-year.html
South African developer Jonathan Carter will be the leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project for the next year, after he defeated the two other contenders in the race, according to the results which were declared on Sunday.
Carter was up against Sruthi Chandran, who was bidding to become the first female leader of the project, and Brian Gupta, a member of the project for the last seven years.
Carter had cited the need for better publicity, getting more feedback to ease up issues that contributors faced and better visibility and transparency about funds received and how they were spent in his election platform.
[...] Debian is one of the few free software projects that holds elections. It has done so since it was set up in 1993 by the late Ian Murdock.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Tuesday April 21 2020, @02:27PM
It's not just Sanders: The fairly well-documented efforts to undermine Elizabeth Warren happened for more-or-less the same reasons, namely she had a chance of winning and considered taxing rich people to be an acceptable way of funding government programs. And the "Washington consensus" is that taxing poor people and middle class people is just fine, but taxing rich people is off limits, because totally coincidentally nearly all candidates from nearly all parties get their campaign cash from rich people.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.