The results of the 2020 Debian Porject Leader (DPL) election have been announced. The new person in charge is Jonathan Carter (also called highvoltage, Debian account jcc). Previously, his predecessor Sam Hartman announced that he would not participate in the DPL election this year .
There are 3 candidates this time, namely:
- Jonathan Carter [[email protected]] [nomination mail] [platform]
- Sruthi Chandran [[email protected]] [nomination mail] [platform]
- Brian Gupta [[email protected]] [nomination mail] [platform]
Among Debian's 1011 developers, 339 voted in favor of this year's elections. The number of participants is similar to that of previous years, and the number of votes has increased slightly compared to a few years ago.
The specific voting process and results analysis and viewing: https://www.debian.org/vote/2020/vote_001
The newly elected Jonathan Carter wrote a few big goals in the campaign "manifesto" :
- Continue to do what Debian does well. Technical excellence, promotion of free software, distribution of new versions, and stable version updates.
- Make Debian attractive to contributors. Make it an interesting, meaningful and popular project, and make more contributors willing to participate. Better understand the work being done.
- Reduce bottlenecks that affect contributors. Gather feedback on what hinders individuals from doing in Debian, and find ways to reduce this friction. Improve online collaboration.
- Improve project housekeeping. With regard to expenditures and available funds, there is better visibility and transparency. Track local teams better. Improve DPL update.
Among them, he mentioned the ability to improve online collaboration. In addition to using tools such as the current IRC, new solutions such as shared screens and video clips are needed, especially because SARS-CoV-2 virus causes COVID-19 pneumonia. This crisis makes this year a particularly important year to consider using other collaboration tools. At the same time regarding online collaboration, will also consider increasing the annual online DebConf.
Jonathan Carter also hopes to promote an internal mentor system and cultivate a culture in Debian where the review and guidance of other people ’s code is also valued, and more Debian developers will be encouraged to spend more time At this point.
On the other hand, Jonathan believes that the term "Debian Developer" has changed its original meaning. For example, when we say "Android developer" or "iOS developer", we are not actually referring to those who develop in upstream projects, but Those who develop for downstream platforms need to change a word to mean "Debian Developer". Currently there are suggestions such as "DPM for Debian Project Member". Follow-up needs to be properly discussed to find a suitable set of words and acronyms.