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posted by n1 on Monday April 14 2014, @08:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the project-democracy dept.

For the last 6 weeks the Debian developers have had an election to determine the new Debian Project Leader. The election is now over and Lucas Nussbaum was re-elected.

As always in Debian, the result of the voting was found using the Condorcet method, which you might have heard about somewhere before...

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Grishnakh on Monday April 14 2014, @08:30PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday April 14 2014, @08:30PM (#31520)

    These election results are bogus. They should use the First-past-the-post voting method. If it's good enough to elect the US President and Congress, it's good enough for everyone.

    </sarcasm>

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Horse With Stripes on Monday April 14 2014, @10:16PM

    by Horse With Stripes (577) on Monday April 14 2014, @10:16PM (#31540)
    Six weeks for an election? That's absurd! What's next, taking months to vote on a new (or the same) name for a website?
  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday April 15 2014, @02:03AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday April 15 2014, @02:03AM (#31621) Journal

    In the face of Unity, Gnome and KDE, and Mozilla, isn't it nice to see that the original spirit of free software carries on, with no fuss and hardly any bother. Now if we could just kill systemd!

    • (Score: 1) by cwadge on Tuesday April 15 2014, @03:30AM

      by cwadge (3324) on Tuesday April 15 2014, @03:30AM (#31651) Homepage Journal

      I'll second this. Get enough people in the room for long enough, and there will be disagreements. Get a bunch of engineers together, it could be a huge drama fest. Debian's had its share of rough spots in the past, but things are pretty smooth, all things considered. I run Debian pretty much everywhere because, as you've noted, it just works.