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Steve McIntyre elected Debian leader E-mail
by Sam Varghese   
Monday, 14 April 2008
The Debian GNU/Linux project will be led by Steve McIntyre from April 17 onwards after he was declared elected on Saturday US time in the 2008 elections.

A little more than 37 percent of the 1075 developers voted in the election which was contested by three candidates, the other two being Raphael Hertzog and Marc Brockschmidt.

The project uses the Condorcet method for determining a winner. According to the explanation at the Debian voting site, one has to "consider all possible two-way races between candidates. The Condorcet winner, if there is one, is the one candidate who can beat each other candidate in a two-way race with that candidate."

McIntyre has been a Debian developer since 1996 and contested the elections in 2006 and 2007 as well, finishing second on both occasions.
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