Debian Project Leader Candidates' Platforms Online

An anonymous reader writes "The platforms for the Debian Project Leader candidates are now available here with more information about how votes are tallied. The candidates this year are the incumbent DPL Martin Michlmayr, and developers Branden Robinson, and Gergely Nagy (but if you vote for him, his tamagotchi will sit on you.)" Nagy's platform is interesting reading.

Martin Michlmayr

[Anonymous Coward]

From Martin's page: "My name is Martin Michlmayr, and I hope that you will re-elect me as your Debian Project Leader" -- I had to double-check, thinking he might not be a native English speaker, and that he might have chosen the wrong word.

I'm on most of the Debian mailing lists, and I didn't know this. Branden's name sticks out, as he's contributed so much. Before double-checking, if you'd asked me which of the three candidates were running for reelection, I'd have thought it was Branden!

Good riddance to the do-nothing. A bunch of PhDs don't mount up to a hill of beans if you don't do anything!

Re:Martin Michlmayr

[twilight30]

I have problems with this. But I'm not bitching on Slashdot about it, and hiding behind AC status to boot. A bit more information might be useful, such as:

• Are you a developer? If so, what specifically are your gripes? (I'm a user and will remain so for the foreseeable future)
  
• The Project Leader term is too short to make a considerable impact in that time -- one of the many reasons why this particular Project Leader hasn't made an impression on you, I'd say. What do you suggest to ameliorate this?
  
• Debian has no marketing department. I do wonder sometimes if it couldn't use a [very] modest one. (Disclaimer: I used to work in marketing and am very aware of how it is generally a negative thing)
  

What is Branden going to do with XFree86?

[twilight30]

Looking over his platform, I noticed one omission:

What the hell is going to happen to XFree86? He's worked like an animal on it for the last four years or so. Is he planning on handing it off to someone else? Or is he going to juggle both?

Either way, one of the two sets of duties -- Project Leader or XFree86 -- will certainly suffer.

As much as I might want him in place as Project Leader, why hasn't he discussed this in his platform? (Not that what I say matters; /me user, non developer :)

just remembered

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwz/204780.html [livejournal.com]

The one I'll vote for is

[Anonymous Coward]

The one that will

• Provide a graphical installer
• Up to date packages in stable
• Dumps gnome, xfce, blackbox etc for a intergrated KDE soloution
• Will abolish the mailing lists and set up modern disucsssion forums
• Design a website that looks like it was made in 2004
• Makes it usable for my grandma
• Uses kernel 2.6

Out of all the candidates, it looks like This pereson [pornparks.com] can do it!