at bottom :- On 30/08/2017, shirish शिरीष <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > Please CC me if somebody puts a reply . > > I had put up the query on debian-devel but was informed that probably > debian-project would be much better place to have discussions like > thees. > > I did try various terms like 'why is Debian Project leader choosen > yearly' and similar queries on search terms and came up empty or > rather came up with answers that didn't the query. > > My query how did the idea of having yearly elections for choosing DPL > come in place. Now while sadly Ian Murdock is not there but am sure > there are more than enough people who know and remember why Ian > Murdock felt the need to have yearly elections instead of a > 2-5 year term. > > Was it because of Bruce Perens as shared in > https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.foundation-documents.html > or something else ? > > <quote=debian handbook> COMMUNITY Bruce Perens, a controversial leader > Bruce Perens was the second leader of the Debian project, just after > Ian Murdock. He was very controversial in his dynamic and > authoritarian methods. He nevertheless remains an important > contributor to Debian, to whom Debian is especially indebted for the > editing of the famous “Debian Free Software Guidelines” (DFSG), an > original idea of Ean Schuessler. Subsequently, Bruce would derive from > it the famous “Open Source Definition”, removing all references to > Debian from it. > > → http://www.opensource.org/ > His departure from the project was quite emotional, but Bruce has > remained strongly attached to Debian, since he continues to promote > this distribution in political and economic spheres. He still > sporadically appears on the e-mail lists to give his advice and > present his latest initiatives in favor of Debian. </quote> > > If somebody knows, would be interested to know the details. >
Forgot to share, I did see it enshrined in the Debian constitution 1.0 in 1997 https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution.1.0 8. The Project Leader serves for one year from their election. but no links or any idea where to find what lead to that idea/process in the first place and why it was thought to be so important. I am sure the times and the needs might have been different. I ask as historically it seems a bit erratic as some DPL's have or needed to have more than one term to do the changes they required for the project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Debian_project_leaders#Comparison -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8
