Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 21, 2005 04:40 AM
Debian has the best leadership in the history of software (heck - its a leadership elected by the developers themselves)!
I agree, Branden is doing a great job. Sometimes I wonder if he's become disillusioned at all by the process, looks to me (from the outside) like making Debian is a lot like making sausage.
Besides, who even if knows if a democracy is the best way to create software? In fact Debian is not just a democracy, but a democracy with an extremely weak executive - a mostly toothless DPL elected to short one-year terms. Most free and open source projects work as a sort of enlightened dictatorship or meritocracy. Debian is quite unique, and has had its share of problems that may be related to that uniqueness - the Sarge release delay was an absolute disaster that unquestionably harmed Debian like a shotgun blow to the back, and the lack of momentum toward trimming architectures or future release plans signal future disasters are on the way.
Best of luck to Branden and company. They've made some great strides so far. But this sucker ain't out of the woods yet.
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Re:best leadership *ever*
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 21, 2005 04:40 AMI agree, Branden is doing a great job. Sometimes I wonder if he's become disillusioned at all by the process, looks to me (from the outside) like making Debian is a lot like making sausage.
Besides, who even if knows if a democracy is the best way to create software? In fact Debian is not just a democracy, but a democracy with an extremely weak executive - a mostly toothless DPL elected to short one-year terms. Most free and open source projects work as a sort of enlightened dictatorship or meritocracy. Debian is quite unique, and has had its share of problems that may be related to that uniqueness - the Sarge release delay was an absolute disaster that unquestionably harmed Debian like a shotgun blow to the back, and the lack of momentum toward trimming architectures or future release plans signal future disasters are on the way.
Best of luck to Branden and company. They've made some great strides so far. But this sucker ain't out of the woods yet.
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