The results of the annual Debian project leader election have been announced. The victory was won by Andreas Tille, who was elected for the first time. This year, two participants competed for the position of leader. Jonathan Carter, who served as leader for the past four years, did not participate in the election. 362 developers took part in the voting, which is 36% of all participants with voting rights (last year the turnout was 28%, the year before 34%, the historical maximum in 2000 was 62.25%, the minimum in 2016 was 27.56%).
Andreas Tille has been involved in maintaining packages for Debian for over 25 years and is the author of the Debian Med project, aimed at optimizing the distribution for solving problems related to medicine and biological research. In addition to development, Andreas also provides mentoring, teaching newcomers who want to join development. Andreas maintains 1591 packages and ranks first in the project in terms of the number of packages downloaded (since 1998, he has downloaded 17254 packages), and also ranks 8th in the number of bugs fixed (5870 fixes).
The second contender for the leadership post this year was Sruthi Chandran, a Debian developer from India who joined development in 2016 and is involved in maintaining 198 packages, including packages with libraries for Ruby, Node.js and Go, and also font packs.
Source: opennet.ru