The results of the annual Debian project leader elections. A total of 339 developers participated in the voting, which is 33% of all eligible voters (last year's turnout was 37%, and the year before that 33%). This year in the elections, there were three candidates for the leader position (Sam Hartman, who was elected last year, did not participate in the elections). The winner is ().
Jonathan has been maintaining over in Debian since 2016, participates in improving the quality of Live images in the debian-live team, and is one of the developers of , a Debian build used in various South African scientific and educational institutions.
Jonathan sees his main tasks as leader as bringing the community together to collaboratively address existing issues and ensuring support for community-related workflows at a level close to the state of the current technical processes in Debian. He considers attracting new developers to the project important, but equally emphasizes the need to maintain a comfortable environment for current developers. Jonathan also suggests not ignoring the many small dysfunctions that many have grown accustomed to and learned to work around. While long-standing developers might overlook these shortcomings, for newcomers, such details can hold significant importance.
Additionally, it can be noted a draft of recommendations for using Git for package maintenance, prepared based on discussions held last year. It is proposed to include recommendations for maintainers concerning the use of Git. In particular, if a package is hosted on a platform supporting merge requests, such as salsa.debian.org, it is recommended that maintainers accept merge requests and process them alongside patches. If the upstream project for which the package is being created uses Git, the Debian package maintainer is advised to use Git for the package. The recommendation also suggests adding the vcs-git field to the package.
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