Andreas Tille, Debian Project Leader, published a monthly report in which he explained that he did not participate in the project leader election for the third time in order to encourage other participants to nominate themselves. As a result, only one candidate is vying for the post of leader this year – Sruthi Chandran (Sruthi Chandran), participant from India. Voting began yesterday and will continue until April 17, but the outcome is already a foregone conclusion, as Debian’s process is based on ranking candidates.
Shruti joined the project in 2016 and has been involved in supporting 194 packages, including packages with libraries for Ruby, Node.js and Go, as well as packages with fonts. She has also co-organized DebConf India and DebConf, and is a member of the Outreach team, which develops initiatives to train newcomers and involve women and minorities in the project.
Plans as a leader addresssupporting diversity in the community, delegating some of the leader’s tasks to 1-2 assistants to improve efficiency, creating a structured Debian course for students, getting Debian pre-installed on laptops, working to make the community more welcoming, and encouraging members to propose new ideas and processes for improving Debian. The plans also mention the creation of a decision-making process that is simpler than the general vote of developers (GR, General Resolution) for approving small day-to-day issues for which a general vote is redundant.
In the second part of the report, Andreas Tille shared his opinion on the implementation of laws requiring the integration of age verification APIs into operating systems, adopted in some US states and in Brazil. It is noted that the situation with the applicability of these laws to a non-profit project developed by volunteers and distributed free of charge remains unclear – the implementation of measures to ensure that the distribution complies with these laws is at the stage of