Results announced annual election of Debian project leader. Won victory Andreas Tille (Andreas Tille), who was elected for the first time. This year for the post of leader claimed two participants. Jonathan Carter, who served as leader for the past four years, did not participate in the election. In the vote took part 362 developers, 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 a Debian package maintainer for over 25 years and is the author of the project. Debian Med, aimed at optimizing the distribution to solve problems related to medicine and biological research. In addition to development, Andreas also provides mentoring, teaching newcomers who want to join development. Andreas accompanies 1591 packages and ranks first in the project in the number of packages downloaded (since 1998, it has downloaded 17,254 packages), as well as 8th in the number of bugs fixed (5,870 fixes).
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The second contender for the post of leader this year was Shruti Chandran (Sruthi Chandran), Debian developer from India, who joined development in 2016 and is involved in maintaining 198 packagesincluding packages with libraries for Ruby, Node.js and Go, as well as packages with fonts.
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