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Slightly OT: How does it work? Who gets to vote and who can run for project leader? I never realized that there were open source projects where that many people

Slightly OT: How does it work? Who gets to vote and who can run for project leader? I never realized that there were open source projects where that many people were involved in voting a project leader.

liw 14y ago
The Debian project constitution lays out the rules: http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution The vote page on our website has more practical information: http://www.debian.org/vote/ http://www.debian.org/vote/
lifeisstillgood 14y ago
Do you remember Starship Troopers, where serving in the military gave you citizenship, and citizenship gave you the right to vote. Well, in the Debian project, citizenship is a commit bit. And the project leader is kept on till he's dead or they find someone better.
emillon 14y ago
The DPL is elected among Debian Developers using a Condorcet method. Every voter gives a preference order between the candidates[1], and if there exists a candidate who would win against any other candidate, he's the winner. For example here is the graph of this election[2]. [1]: http://vote.debian.org/~secretary/leader2013/tally.txt http://vote.debian.org/~secretary/leader2013/tally.txt [2]: http://vote.debian.org/~secretary/leader2013/results.png http://vote.debian.org/~secretary/leader2013/results.png