>Kurt Roeckx has announced that Debian has moved to the campaigning period for the 2026 Debian Project Leader (DPL) election. This year there is only one candidate, Sruthi Chandran, so Debian voters will have a choice between Chandran as DPL or "None of the above". The campaign period will run through April 3, and the voting period will run from April 4 to April 17. Chandran has not yet posted a platform for the 2026 election, but her 2024 platform is available on the Debian wiki.>https://www.debian.org/vote/2024/platforms/srudThe current DPL is Andreas Tille>https://andreas-tille.eu/index_en.htmlFrom what I read about him, he seems reliable and deserves it. Put in mind that the DPL has the authority to steer not just the political movement but also the technical movement of Debian>https://www.debian.org/devel/leaderWhile our pajeeta says she's "a librarian turned Free Software enthusiast and Debian Developer from India". The only development she cites is packaging, and goes into a rant about diversity and the need to import billions of pajeetas like her into the debian and FOSS community using the donated money, and how "cis" males are le evil.I use debian, and I think it's a decent choice for what it offers, I heard about some volunteers leaving, and the blood of the systemd wars didn't dry yet, but if this pajeeta get the leadership it will get even worse.She's the only candidate and devs can vote "none of the above" So does this mean the debian project can be headless?
>>108400764Debian is dead.
>>108400773You only have Ack linux, which isn't stable, fedora which is redhat, and a bunch of meme distros.
>>108400764This is worse than that shaman bitch running gnome. Anything downstream of Debian is EF YOU KAY KAY EEEE DEEE
>>108400796I thought my goat ebussy owns gnome, I'm dissaponted
>>108400764>Debian voters will have a choice between Chandran as DPL or "None of the above"Time to switch back to IBM-owned Fedora, because even that seems more democratic at this point. Fucking hypocrites.
>>108400821>owns gnome,But he's a communist.
>>108400764>Sruthi Chandran>https://debconf21.debconf.org/users/srud/She's got 5 accepted talks, all of which are about "Growing the community" and other outreach bullshit. She even listed "Closing Ceremony / Wine and Cheese" as one of her accepted talks. Shameful
>>108400987What's really shameful is that nobody besides a former librarian wanted to run
>>108400764>https://www.debian.org/vote/2024/platforms/srud>What are my plans as DPL>1. Diversity>Since diversity is my primary focus, let me start with that.>Diversity budget
>>108400764Why the fuck is no one else running? Why are nerds so incapable?
>>108400792>Ack linux, which isn't stablelies
>>108400764Interesting. I will migrate to OpenSUSE once Debian 12 becomes EOL in 2 years.
>>108401161Leave now, why even remain associated with that sludge creature?
>>108400796>shaman bitchThis could look exactly like OP or be some really hot alt white girl. I'll just imagine the latter.
>>108400773>>108400792>>108401161>>108401638So what you all are going to use for servers? I need something stable and bullshit free that is good enough for enterprise use.
>>108401703BSD like a straight white man
>>108401703ALMA
>>108401706> Enterprise friendly - No OCI-like containers;- No K8S;- Bad driver support;> "Why nobody's using BSD anymore?"
>>108400997No one cares about Debian anymore. Ubuntu (which might as well a completely separate thing by this point), Fedora and Arch are the only relevant distros these days.
>>108400792Red Hat won by not doing anything and being incentivized by the profit motive (making a distro that works).
>>108401731>- No OCI-like containers;I thought one of the main bragging points of BSD was that you never needed containers because it has jails
>>108400997>>108401077https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/03/msg00027.htmlThis guy tried to run but he signed up a day late. Is it possible that they could reotroactively add him? This woman who's currently the only one in the runnings looks like an apocalytpically bad choice. Why the fuck is the voting/signing up period for Debian leader only 1 week?
>>108401777>by not doing anythingThey do everything, and they don't get enough credit for making linux viable.
Is it over for proxmox?
>>108400839>imagine going to a corpo-controlled OS instead of a community-developed one>muh unstable Both Arch and Fedora are statistically equal in terms of breakage.
What a horribly ugly brown person
>>108401944Well we will see. Apparently the Debian developers can vote for "none of the above" which would basically restart the voting. It's up to them to vote against her. I'm not entirely sure about how it works but if she does end up winning then she wouldn't have absolute power and the developers themselves can nullify her on at least some things. But she would have control over the money and other things.Not ideal. My naive hope is that (if the DDs don't vote against her) Canonical steps in somehow and stops this, given that they depend so heavily on Debian. She will definitely cry sexism or whatever but I think it's very easy to discredit her as a candidate given her track record of basically being a nobody.
>>108401992>Both Arch and Fedora are statistically equal in terms of breakageIncorrect, Fedora is backed by a company that has a financial incentive to make sure things don't break, unlike "community-owned distros" who couldn't give less of a fuck.
>>108402001>What a horribly ugly brown personShe's large enough for two brown persons.
>>108402024Debian is community owned and has the least breakages of any Linux distro
Current DPL to the pajeeta. Developers are going to vote for her so that they don't appear racist or sexist.It's over, lads.
>>108402035That's because debian turned being perpetually 5 years out of date into a feature.
>>108400764look how they massacred my boy.>>108402006i want to believe it. no way they'll vote that disgrace into power, and if they do something so stupid she'll be contained. back to the arch/fedora designeted repos bitch.no! no! not in my DEBIAN. debi-chads this cant be happenning to US.
>>108400764It just goes to show you how few people actually want the position. I can't imagine it pays much, and the responsibilities must be heavy.
>>108402137>i want to believe it. no way they'll vote that disgrace into power,To be clear I said my hope was naive. I don't know what the actual chances of them voting against her are. But to any DDs reading this: please god don't let her in.
>>108400764Was this the face that launched a thousand hops? Kinda funny when you think about it, imagine being too ugly for even the Debian linux project.
what would he think?
>>108401890>they don't get enough credit for making linux viableName one thing.
>>108402349What contributions have the Greeks/Romans/British made to Western civilization, name one thing? That’s how stupid you sound.
>>108402365That's an extremely easy question to answer. Now RedHat's contributions, on the other hand, amount to deliberate infiltration and sabotage of loonix project.
>>108400764What does the Debian constitution define as a quorum of voters? Can people vote for no candidate?
>>108401140arch is by definition not """stable""" regardless how reliable it is on (You)r machine.
>>108402401Red Hat, much like the Greek/Roman/British empires, has their own unifying vision for a cohesive nation --- at the expense of their conquered vassals. I remember when people were crying about udev, but do you see people at any significant scale using anything other than udev anymore? Not everything that RH (look at you, SystemD) does is bad, but they think the benefits of forcing everyone to use their vision outweigh any drawbacks.
>>108401140>>108402473Yeah, I meant that it will work, until one day you will update and something will break, or some fag maintainer decided to change his config lang without backward compatibility and all of your workflow is halted. With stable I mean that it won't change, and is expected, though arch is good for what it is; a rolling release distro.>>108400987It is the same with all the women and (many) trannies in last software conferences, it's never about tech; just gay agenda.>>108400997Many good devs left the debian project because it stopped being what they joined for; Free software and community, and grew tired of the politics. Because in contrast with many main distros, Debian is non-profit and requires a lot of volunteers' work.>>108401760Many main packages on debian are maintained by the canonical employees. Ubuntu might be a good alternative if you can strip it from all of its cancer, something like mint is good. >>108401706BSDs are interesting, mainly openbsd and net, from what I can tell freebsd is just trying to be a worse linux at this point. But they need a lot of contributions to be in the level of loonix, and it's backed by the biggest corporations and capitals, because, for better of for worse, linux is the OS of today.
>>108400764>both the founder and distro committed a suicideSlackware is the last one left, lol.
>>108402006>>108402137>>108402158She clearly uses the argument of sexism and inclusion to gain more power and frame her opposers as sexists and whatever, and the only reason she contributed to debian was to gain power, this indian women are always power hungry, they're the retarded version of the jews.>>108401992>>108402024Fedora is just the testing branch for RHEL, and you get treated like a guinea pig for every cancer RH decides to force on the linux community.>>108402197>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock#Death>Abused by the police>Said he will devote his life to fight them>found dead in a "suicide"Holy shit, I didn't know Debian's lore is this deep. What was the reaction of the community at that time?
>>108402740>What was the reaction of the community at that time?They did nothing and didn’t win.
>>108400764>the face of the project is an ugly orkPoetry?
>DPL elections is an important activity in our project and I plan to bring up the topic of diversity for discussion every election till we have a non-(cis)male DPL. It's way worse than I thought. The majority of her proposal is just diversity diversity diversity and she proposes almost nothing but a few generic lines on how to actually steer the development side of the project. Debian deserves the drought it's in. Instead of meeting people where they are, like Twitter like it or not, Debian wants to scour rural India for tech savants apparently and expects zoomers to want to interact with mailing lists. The absolute state.
>>108400764What you gotta remember is that Debian Leadership Elections have a "None of the Above" choice on the ballot. This Pajeeta has run in every DPL election since 2020 (except for 2022 and 2023) and she got mogged badly in each of them. She's not popular and has struggled to compete with None of the Above in past elections, and now when you got people who are actually interested in running but got cockblocked by the deadline (eg https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/03/msg00027.html), it's entirely possible we'll have the first DPL election where None of the Above wins, which will force nominations to reopen.If you want to save Debian, you gotta spend this so-called "campaigning period" campaigning for None of the Above so that we can actually get a contested election.
>>108403082NONE OF THE ABOVE HAS BEEN A RELIABLE MEMBER OF THE DEBIAN COMMUNITY FOR DECADES. NO ISSUES WITH COMMITS, NO INTERPERSONAL DRAMA. 30+ YEARS OF PROVEN LEADERSHIP: NONE OF THE ABOVE GETS MY VOTE.
>>108403082these mailing lists are so confusing, i cant believe they develop anything like that.anyway they are trying to fight back: https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/03/msg00050.html>I propose amending the Debian Constitution as follows:>If, at the close of the nomination period for a Debian Project Leader election, only one valid candidate has been nominated, the nomination period shall be automatically extended by 21 days>[...]https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/03/msg00045.html>[...]>Giving the other two candidates an exemption and updating the constitution to prevent single person elections feels like a more future proof path forward for maintaining democratic values.https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/03/msg00042.html>I absolutely agree with you. No competition in elections means no democracy.https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/03/msg00041.html>There's gotta be at least two people in the ballot!beautiful... hope restored.
>>108403387>Debian developer is admitting the jeet might lose
This whole train wreck is hilarious to witness from the sidelines. I don't want debian to die but its policies are pretty questionable.
>>108403428https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/03/msg00048.html>[...]>As others have said, “NotA” is an available option. I trust it not to be anywhere near as popular as affirming our choice for Sruthi, but the possibility exists.it's afraid!
>>108403232none of the above's policies don't go too far enough
how much damage can an incompetent leader really do? It's possible that these are only concerned with community outreach, so worse she will do is just waste a few donation dollars do divert to DEI indians woman
>>108403598Debian has elections every year. If she manages to beat NOTA, she'll definitely be voted out next year because the guys who missed the nomination deadline will come back with a vengeance
>>108401003ahem, lol
>>108403598I think a year is enough time for a jeet to destroy everything.
>>108401003Basically she wants to use the year she's in power to just Jeetify the OS as much as possible lol
>>108403665yeah but will she? of course she won't push the project forward in any capacity, but she most likely won't have real power to really influence contributors if she is that incompetent, they'll just ignore her. Hell, having a leader like this might even open you up to some surprise cash infusions by a government or well funded NGO
>>108403683She'll start redirecting any contracts to other Indians, and moving in her own people as much as possible. She will in some way impose herself on the most useful people and they'll leave.Debian itself isn't going to stop working of course, but the organisation will start crumbling.
>>108403700indians are loyal to each other unlike ytes
>>108403700this will be fun to watch
>>108403700This is why it's important to campaign for the NOTA vote. We've got until April 4! The nomination periods are simply too short (one week) for a fair democratic process.
>>108403754how do I get /g/'s smelly NEETs and mentally ill trannies on various platforms to vote?
>>108403783Voting is only open to Debian developers. That said we've already had a few developers and even backers/corporations expressing disappointment at the candidacy.If you want to make Debian developers support the NOTA campaign, write to their mailing list as some developers already have and explain that this isn't democratic at all and one week is a ridiculously small amount of time to get nominees to lead one of the most important software projects in the world.
>>108403666No shit, Satan. She's one of your orcs.
>>108403082Democracy is retarded and easy to subvert. Maybe that's why lefties love it
>>108403797>one week is a ridiculously small amount of time to get nominees to lead one of the most important software projects in the worldThis uncontested election that is only uncontested because the other contestants missed the deadline by a hair is proof of this
>>108401866>will autistics bend the rulesIt will never happen.I wonder what the Russians are doing. Or maybe the Chinese.
>>108403531I hear that none of the above has pledged to step down if his leadership proves unpopular.
>>108400764jeet fatigue is real
>>108403387>>108403503There does seem to be a bit of pushback, even from some @debian.org emails. So while I still think it's dangerously likely they do elect her, there is a chance that they won't. One DD even noted that she's basically inactive in the mailing lists, which is odd for someone whose potential new job is literally to communicate on them. I want to reiterate how absolutely insane it is that someone like this, who is basically not part of the org, can waltz into one of the biggest and most influental FOSS projects on the planet and take over.>>108403797People should do this. But MAKE SURE that you are polite and courteous. Do not bring up the fact that she is a woman/woke/whatever. Focus on other things like there only being one candidate, her seemingly low involvement with the project, low experience with the project, MUCH better candidates applying literally one day late (https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/03/msg00027.html), etc.
>>108405201>One DD even noted that she's basically inactive in the mailing lists, which is odd for someone whose potential new job is literally to communicate on themThis is a key point to stress.>But MAKE SURE that you are polite and courteous>Focus on other things like there only being one candidate, her seemingly low involvement with the project, low experience with the project, MUCH better candidates applying literally one day lateThese are super important too. Maybe we can bring this to the attention of Linuxtubers?
>>108405201>I want to reiterate how absolutely insane it is that someone like this, who is basically not part of the org, can waltz into one of the biggest and most influental FOSS projects on the planet and take overIt's over for Debian(.|?)
>>108403082>>108403232>>108403531>>108404901>>108403387>>108405201>>108403754>>108403797Vote NOTA, Save Debian.
>>108400764mr jeremy bicha should be the project leader (Distinguished Child Rapist)
>>108405277Jeremy Bicha, DPL (Distinguished Pedophile Lord)
>>108405275Lol, golden
>>108400764cringe
>>108400764how can i vote against the poo loo?
>>108400764I can tell these people hate AI with just looking at them
>>108405433Indians love AI
>>108400764The inconvenient consequence is that we, the users of Debian, have to join the political process and do what they do, i.e. strategically occupy relevant positions and support each other. Ideally our politics is about restoring the focus on technical affairs and remove the diversity subversion. It requires that many of us do it. Can we do it?
>>108401866Check the follow-up email. He got turned down. This shit is truly doomed.
I actually hope they go through with this vote because seeing her lose to absolutely no one would be a historic BTFO
>>108401140It's objectively not stable by definition, that's the whole point of it, you emotion driven retard
>>108401866If Martínez comes back and wins DPL after a NOTA, it's going to be absolutely epic
>>108401866another developer mentioned there was one more, but i couldn't confirm. it's a shame he was ill.>>108405447i think most developers are good people with strong technical motivation; they are a direct reflection of debian users, who focus on a functional and stable system and value their distribution.given the current circumstances, the best we can do is contact the developers about this case; in the long term, we could also continue to stay in touch. i think most of us want others to feel welcome, but that can't be the sole or primary goal of a project like this, never.
>>108400764
>>108406353KEK
>>108405201>One DD even noted that she's basically inactive in the mailing lists, which is odd for someone whose potential new job is literally to communicate on themLink? This is vital info for the NOTA campaign.
>>108406353Press press search assess.
>>108400764God she's so fucking hideous, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA GET AWAY FROM MEEEEEEEEEE
>>108400764Hope she loses
>>108400764>>108403082SAAR DO NOT VOTE FOR NONE OF THE ABOVE BLOODY BENCHODI NEED MY FAMILY TO BECOME VIBECODING DEBIAN DEVELOPERSDIVERSITY IS WHEN EVERYTHING IS INDIAN
>>108400773Well you're right, Deb and Ian are both dead.
>>108406601https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/03/msg00044.htmlIt's really hard to search the mailing lists but I think if you go here (https://lists.debian.org/search.html) and search for "srud@disroot.org" or one of her other names you can see how active she is. She was active 5+ years ago (packaging fonts) but basically hasn't communicated on the mailing lists in years.
>>108407021>eventually became a Debian Developer>has almost no contributions>also talks about how important it is to have non-technical contributionsShe's just talking about herself. She knows nothing about Debian and wants to take it over.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/03/msg00037.htmlMan, she has no idea how to use the mailing lists. Also lol at those answers. She hasn't even put forth her platform yet despite being the only choice! What the fuckhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/03/msg00035.htmlShe doesn't give proper answers and just agrees with the guy. He needs to play hardball with her but he's not.
>>108409226>He needs to play hardball with her but he's not.He risks getting CoC'd.
>debian is pozzed>ubuntu is pozzed>arch is pozzed and unstable>void is pozzed and fucking oldBros... I'm not feeling well. I don't like tgis world. The jews won and they don't keep winning.Will I eventually switch to gentoo? Plz tell me it's not woke either.
>>108406622Imagine having to sit next to that creature on a long flight as her fat and noxious odor invades your personal space.
Jesus fucking Christ. Will nothing be safe from DEI? I am so fucking tired of these god damn bullshit gender/sexuality/skin color quotas instead of just preferring people with skills over people with little/no skills regardless of ANYTHING else like skin color or presence of dongs. I want sanity to come back in style.
>>108410762>>108400764>Chandran has not yet posted a platform for the 2026 electionShe has a platform now, and you guessed it: it's JUST about diversity again, however knowing that she is an unpopular candidate who risks losing to NOTA, she has also made some vague comments about making the DPL's life easier: https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/platforms/srud>Now I cannot promise what I will do with respect to this concernAKA she's not going to do shit and all she plans to do is throw the Debian treasury at India.
>>108410762>I am sad that there are only two women Debian Developer from a large country like IndiaWhy is it incumbent on the Debian project, which operates out of the United States, to fix the fucked up rapegoblin country of India?
>>108400764>another fucking indian steals a leadership position in tech from a white man
>>108410964NOTA NOTA NOTA
>>108400764"none of the above" probably gets you to another election and more candidates. We can hope.
>>108411076Yep, the Debian Constitution says that if NOTA wins then they have to reopen nominations
>>108411076The funniest part is that Debian elections use ranked choice voting where voters rank every candidate against each other, and in one of the previous elections when you broke down the math NOTA got like 37% of the vote in the Pajeeta vs NOTA matchup. And that was WITHOUT people thinking the election was rigged.
>>108400764>So does this mean the debian project can be headless?No, if that option wins, the election procedure is just repeated all over again: https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution#item-5 (5.2)
>>108411672NOTA NOTA NOTA NOTA
>>108400764I'm voting for her. Seethe for me, Loonix troons.
>>108412657I kind of want her to win, just to see what happens.
>>108412666Here's what will happen: nothing.
>>108400987Look at this beautiful woman. You will vote for her, Chud. She will make Debian diverse again!
FORMER DEBIAN LEADER JONATHAN CARTER HAS CALLED ON SRUTHI TO WITHDRAW HER NOMINATIONTOTAL NOTA VICTORY
