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| by Sam Varghese | |
| Monday, 13 April 2009 | |
  
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The contest for leader was a two-way affair this year, with McIntyre, who held the office in 2008-09, recontesting against Stefano Zacchiroli. The voting ended on April 11 and the results have been made public on the Debian website. Debian uses the Condorcet method for project leader polls. All possible two-way races between candidates are considered and the winner, if there is one, is the candidate who beats every other candidate in a two-way race with that candidate. McIntyre's election means that Luk Claes will be functioning as an assistant DPL along with him - this was one of McIntyre's election promises. This is the third time that a DPLl has been re-elected - Wichert Akkerman and Martin Michlmayr are the other two. McIntyre has been a Debian developer since 1996 and contested the elections in 2006 and 2007 as well, finishing second on both occasions. He hails from the northwest of England and is employed by Amino Communications, a company in Cambridgeshire that develops Linux-based set-top boxes. Apart from the responsibilities of leader, McIntyre runs the Debian-CD team that creates the official CDs and DVDs to accompany each release and is also part of the team that organises Debconf, the Debian Project's developer conference, each year. Update, April 15: "It's a great honour to be re-elected as DPL," McIntyre said. "I'm happy that I achieved the primary goal of my first year in the post, helping to improve the state of many of our core teams. There's still more of that work to be done this year, and I'm planning to dive straight in. "To help this year, I've convinced my good friend and respected Debian developer Luk Claes to join in and share the workload as assistant DPL. We're going to be working together closely throughout the year, and that should be a great help. We'll both have our own goals to work on as well; more news on those when we've worked out a reasonable priority list." Zacchiroli wished McIntyre a good year. "Congratulations to the winner... and good luck for a good job!" he said. |
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