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New Debian Project Leader Takes Charge

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Guiding a major software operating system is not often a democratic act, even within the open source movement. But Debian GNU/Linux is an exception. Branden Robinson was recently elected by Debian developers as the new Debian Project Leader (DPL) and issued his first report yesterday. In it, he discussed the progress and challenges of the much anticipated next release.

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This is another story I have not read, nor do I intend to for many reasons, hence, if that suffices for you to conclude these comments are uninformed - read no further.

The headline on this story makes much more sense than that exhibited on /. : "Branden Robinson Lays Down the Law at Debian". I know that some models have a supposed dictator at the head of free/open source projects (benign or otherwise), but unless that person is the initiator or the primary developer how does one dictate to volunteers? I think Linus said that leading/controlling a free software project was akin to herding cats.

If the latter has some fraction of veracity, I think someone is passing on the wrong impression. In closed source, one can perhaps fire, reduce pay, or transfer those unworthy, but here in the most democratic of projects a take charge guy has his work cut out for him. I only hope the headlines are misleading, because Debian does have some problems.
Indeed, the title is misleading and the article itself is pretty bad, too.

I felt myself much better informed by reading the story from the "source" himself: Branden Robinson released his first DPL Report at http://people.debian.org/~branden/dpl/reports/2005-04-24.htm...

To bad the story even made it to /. labeled as an "interview" (although it isn't and the article doesn't claim it to be one, either).

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