Dear Developers, as per Constitution §7.2, me and the current Project Secretary have agreed in (re-)appointing Kurt Roeckx as Project Secretary for another term. The term will start tomorrow, 20 February 2011, and will last for 1 year. – Kurt Roeckx, Stefano Zacchiroli

Dear Developers, let’s see if I can intrude in the Squeeze release countdown (to expire during the upcoming week-end [1]!) with some DPL bits.

openSuse’s Vincent Untz organized a meeting around cross-platform application installer in Germany. The meeting was attended by developers representing major distros. Debian is one of the most reputed distributions, which also wears the crown of being the father/mother of popular distributions like Ubuntu and Linux Mint. We talked to Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian project leader, to [...]

The current leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project, Stefano Zacchiroli (pictured below, left), posed the question with a little more force – Why the bloody hell should you care about Debian? – in a talk at the 12th Australian national Linux conference today.

Dear Developers, I suspect you have been missing DPL SPAM, so let me try to fix that. In the meantime, Squeeze is looking better and better every passing day [0], but we’re not there yet. How about offering as gifts to your closest friends some RC bug fixes? I’m sure they’ll appreciate!

Dear Developers, here we go again with the periodic SPAM^Wreport from your Friendly Neighborhood DPL.

Dear developers, some changes have been recently going on among FTP masters, which I’m hereby ratifying with a delegation under Constitution §8.

Dear developers, here is the promised DPL report from DebConf10. I post it not only as the usual periodic report, but also to point at some DebConf10 events which might be relevant for future project activities.

Hello world, here is a report on DPL whereabouts up to July 2010, just before DebConf. It was meant to be sent before, but DebConf has been so intense that I sat down writing it only now, apologies for the delay. I’ll separately send a DebConf-related update. As usual, a more detailed/boring activity log is [...]

Jonathan has contacted me to check whether Debian is interested in having a This Week in Debian podcast, which will be discussing weekly Debian-related topics, interviewing at each episode someone from the community.

Hello world, here is another update on the whereabouts of the DPL. Communication: I’ve attended LinuxTag and delivered a talk at the wonderful mini DebConf organized there. Slides of my talk are available [1], as well as a nice article about it on LWN [2] and another one on the German Linux Magazin [3].

Hi, As promised, another regular(ish) update on the state of the Squeeze release and our plans for the remainder of the cycle.

LinuxTag 2010 is the host of a Debian miniconf; that, in turn, was where relatively new Debian leader Stefano Zacchiroli delivered a relatively high-energy “state of Debian” talk. According to Stefano, Debian is doing great, but can do better yet; he has some ideas for how to make the project better.

Hello world, time for another “bits” mail. [ As a rule of thumb, I'll keep out of bits mail (too) boring stuff, so I remind everybody that there's a daily activity log on master:/srv/leader/news/bits-from-the-DPL.txt where the boring stuff can be found; some documentation at http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL ]

So, I’m now back and with some feedback to share. I’ll first post (in this mail) a summary of the replies I got to this “poll” and later on a more general summary of what I did at UDS.

I’m happy to announce that we have a new victim^W enthusiastic volunteer for the Debian auditor role, which is currently vacant.

I’ve been asked to clarify the delegation for the DSA team, so here it goes. First it comes the formal delegation text (between full-length dashed-lines), then a few informal comments.

Zacchiroli, a post-doctoral fellow at a university in Paris, thus has a fairly tough task ahead as he begins his term. He took some time out to speak to iTWire about his plans for the year.

Hello, world!, 48 hours into this new DPL term, here are my first ever “bits from the DPL” with kudos, directions, and some practical information.

In accordance with its constitution[0] the Debian Project has elected Stefano Zacchiroli as Debian project leader for the 2010/2011 term. Stefano has been a Debian Developer since March 2001 and is a long-term contributor to several core services such as Debian’s Package Tracking System and its Quality Assurance Team.

Hi, The winner of the election is Stefano Zacchiroli. His term will start on April 17th, 2010.

Hi, The voting period for the Debian Project Leader election 2010 is almost over. You still have about 26 hours from the time of this writing.

Hi, This is the second call for votes for the Debian Project Leader Elections 2010.

Hi, This is the first call for votes for the Debian Project Leader Elections 2010.

Hi folks, It’s been a very long time since I’ve written a summary of what I’ve been up to, and I apologise for that. I’ve been plenty busy enough, but rubbish at reporting back regularly. As it’s coming up to the end of my term and I’ll be handing over to a new DPL very [...]

We are in the campaigning period for this year’s Debian Project Leader (DPL) election; voting begins April 2, 2010. Platforms have been posted for each of the four candidates—Stefano Zacchiroli, Wouter Verhelst, Charles Plessy, and Margarita Manterola.

For the first time in its 16-year history, the Debian GNU/Linux project has a woman in the running to become leader of the project when voting for the post takes place between April 2 and April 15.

The Debian project was given a new server from Thomas Krenn AG, Intel and Adaptec for its image building. With the Dual-Xeon computer the build process was reduced from 20 to two hours.

Hi, We’re now a few days into the campaigning period. The candidates are….

Dear fellow developers, we all want to get out squeeze as soon as possible. Currently we are still at 400 bugs concerning the next stable release, with 300 of them not yet fixed in unstable.