Debian Project Leader Elections 2003

Time Line

Nomination period: January 24th 00:00:01 UTC, 2003 February 14th 00:00:00 UTC, 2003
Campaigning period: February 14th 00:00:01 UTC, 2003 March 8th 00:00:00 UTC, 2003
Voting period: March 8th, 00:00:01 UTC, 2003 March 30th 00:00:00 UTC, 2003

Nominations

  1. Moshe Zadka [moshez@debian.org] [platform]
  2. Bdale Garbee [bdale@debian.org] [platform]
  3. Branden Robinson [branden@debian.org] [platform]
  4. Martin Michlmayr [tbm@debian.org] [platform]

The ballot can be received through email by emailing ballot@vote.debian.org with the subject leader2003.

Debate

Scheduled for March 7th, 22:00:00 UTC, 2003, on the IRC server irc.freenode.net. There are to be two relevant channels, namely, #debian-dpl-debate, and #debian-dpl-discuss. The #debian-dpl-debate channel will be moderated. Anybody may view the proceedings, but only the candidates, the moderators, and those participating in the immediate discussion will be able to post messages. The #debian-dpl-discuss channel will be unmoderated, and anybody may post messages to it - the intention is for real-time, unmoderated discussion of the candidates' responses to the debate questions.

Condensed log from the channels, courtesy of David B. Harris:

Data and Statistics

Some statistics are being gathered about ballots and acknowledgements periodically during the voting period. Additionally, the list of people for the election is available, complete with tokens so that the voters may check their votes were tallied. The tally sheet is also present. In the following table, tally[row x][col y] represents the votes that candidate x received over candidate y. A more detailed explanation of the beat matrix may help in understanding the table.

  1 2 3 4 5
1   34 66 38 228
2 428   238 224 449
3 385 221   226 405
4 397 228 237   424
5 202 29 65 39  

Looking at row 2, column 1, Candidate 2 (Bdale Garbee) received 428 votes over Candidate 1 (Moshe Zadka)
Looking at row 1, column 2, Candidate 1 (Moshe Zadka) received 34 votes over Candidate 2 (Bdale Garbee).

Quorum

With 831 developers, Q=14.41353531, making a quorum of 43.2406059, or, rounding up, 44. All candidates met the quorum requirement.

Outcome

The winner of the election is Martin Michlmayr.
I would like to thank Moshe Zadka, Branden Robinson and Bdale Garbee for their service to the project, for standing for the post of project leader, and for offering the developers a strong and viable group of candidates.

Graphical rendering of the results

For understanding the Condorcet method, the Wikipedia entry is fairly informative.

Total unique votes cast: 488, which is 58.60409% of all possible votes.
Pairwise elections won-lost-tied:

Moshe Zadka 1-3-0 votes against in worst defeat/closest victory: 428
Bdale Garbee 3-1-0 votes against in worst defeat/closest victory: 228
Branden Robinson 2-2-0 votes against in worst defeat/closest victory: 238
Martin Michlmayr 4-0-0 votes against in worst defeat/closest victory: 226
None Of The Above 0-4-0 votes against in worst defeat/closest victory: 449

1 beats 5: 228 202 = 26
2 beats 1: 428 34 = 394
2 beats 3: 238 221 = 17
2 beats 5: 449 29 = 420
3 beats 1: 385 66 = 319
3 beats 5: 405 65 = 340
4 beats 1: 397 38 = 359
4 beats 2: 228 224 = 4
4 beats 3: 237 226 = 11
4 beats 5: 424 39 = 385