Debian Voting Information

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Debian Project Leader Elections 2026
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General Resolution: Statement about the EU Legislation "Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Directive"
Debian Project Leader Elections 2023
General Resolution: non-free firmware
Debian Project Leader Elections 2022
General Resolution: Voting secrecy
General Resolution: Change the resolution process
General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board
Debian Project Leader Elections 2021
Debian Project Leader Elections 2020
General Resolution: Init systems and systemd
Debian Project Leader Elections 2019
Debian Project Leader Elections 2018
Debian Project Leader Elections 2017
General Resolution: Declassifying debian-private
General Resolution: Replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution
General Resolution: Declassifying debian-private
Debian Project Leader Elections 2016
General Resolution: Update Standard Resolution Procedure
Debian Project Leader Elections 2015
General Resolution: Limiting the term of the technical committee members
General Resolution: init system coupling
General Resolution: code of conduct
Debian Project Leader Elections 2014
Debian Project Leader Elections 2013
General Resolution: Diversity statement
Debian Project Leader Elections 2012
Debian Project Leader Elections 2011
General Resolution: Debian project members
Debian Project Leader Elections 2010
Debian Project Leader Elections 2009
General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations
General Resolution: Project membership procedures
Debian Project Leader Elections 2008
Constitutional amendment: reduce the length of DPL election process
General Resolution: Endorse the concept of Debian Maintainers
General Resolution: Altering package upload rules
Debian Project Leader Elections 2007
General Resolution: Handling source-less firmware in the Linux kernel
General Resolution: Re-affirm support to the Debian Project Leader
General Resolution: Recall the project leader
General Resolution: Position statement clarifying DFSG #2
Constitutional Amendment General Resolution: Handling assets for the project
Debian Project Leader Elections 2006
General Resolution: Why the GNU Free Documentation License is not suitable for Debian main
General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives
Debian Project Leader Elections 2005
General Resolution: Sarge Release Schedule in view of GR 2004-003
General Resolution: Editorial amendments to the social contract
General Resolution: Status of the non-free section
Debian Project Leader Elections 2004
Constitutional Amendment: Disambiguation of Section 4.1.5
Constitutional Amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD Voting Method
Debian Project Leader Elections 2003
Debian Project Leader Elections 2002
Leader Elections 2001
Leader Elections 2000
Swap Logos
New Logo
Logo License
Leader Elections 1999
Constitution
Withdrawn
General Resolution: Interpretation of DFSG on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models
General Resolution: tag2upload
General Resolution: Update Standard Resolution Procedure
General Resolution: Sponsorship requirements for General Resolutions
General Resolution: Force AMD64 architecture into Sarge
IRC as a Debian communication channel
Other
Superseded: Constitutional amendment: Smith/Condorcet vote tallying
Superseded: Constitutional amendment: alternate disambiguation of 4.1.5
Superseded: Constitutional amendment: disambiguation of 4.1.5
Superseded: Non-free Archive Removal
Debian Voting Information
The Debian Project has a vote tracking system
(DEbian VOTe EnginE
devotee
])
which gives status of ongoing General Resolutions and the results of
previous votes.
The status of ongoing General Resolutions include the proposal and
list of seconds, all important dates and the necessary rules for
passage. Of course, the status will also include one of the following:
Proposal - Waiting for seconds.
Discussion - In minimum two week discussion period.
Voting - Voting process taking place.
Closed - Voting is over.
The results of previous votes (closed resolutions) include the
outcome as well as a list of all people who voted and what their
vote was. It also has available the text of each vote sent,
unless it was a secret ballot.
Debian uses the
Condorcet
method
for project leader
elections (the wikipedia article linked to is pretty informative).
Simplistically, plain Condorcet's method can be stated like so
Consider all possible two-way races between candidates.
The Condorcet winner, if there is one, is the one
candidate who can beat each other candidate in a two-way
race with that candidate.
The problem is that in complex elections, there may well
be a circular relationship in which A beats B, B beats C,
and C beats A. Most of the variations on Condorcet use
various means of resolving the tie. See
Cloneproof Schwartz Sequential Dropping
for details. Debian's variation is spelled out in the
the constitution
specifically, § A.5.
For more information how to read the beat matrix,
which is published as the outcome of votes, you may look at this
example
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