What are we to make of the fact that there is only one candidate for next Debian Project Leader?
Seems like no one else wanted the job, and although Sruthi has been a candidate before, they have never held the position before.
It has always seemed like a fantastically hard job to me.
@grifferz It's not unprecedented. Since 1999, there have been four previous DPL elections with only one candidate, in 2011, 2016, 2018, and 2023. It happens sometimes.
Source: https://www.debian.org/vote/
See the right-hand sidebar for a list of previous project-wide votes including DPL elections. Each vote page has the list of candidates (and results).
Andy Smith
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