Hey everybody. Just as a bit of background, Manoj Srivastava (the Debian Project Secretary) has for the last couple of years delegated the task of running the Debian Project Leader realtime/IRC debate to myself. This year we've seen an amazing amount of email traffic to debian-vote@lists.debian.org, including excellent participation both on the part of the candidates as well as on the part of the electorate. Almost every conceivable question relevant to the elections and the candidates' platforms have been asked and answered (in a few cases, multiple times ;). With this in mind, and given the time constraints of all people involved, this year's IRC debate will not take place. After discussion with the candidates and those who most actively participated in last year's debate, it was decided that a debate this year would be of little benefit to the electorate. If there are still questions you want the candidates to answer and debate over (I've received only one in the past few weeks), I'd encourage you to send a message to debian-vote@lists.debian.org. Please, though, make at least a cursory check of the archives[1] (if you have a Debian account, you can download the list archives in mbox format from master.debian.org[2]). Specifically, those messages which are typically entitled as "questions for the candidates" and those messages which start threads. Thanks, David B. Harris [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2004/debian-vote-200403/threads.html [2] master.debian.org:~debian/lists/debian-vote/debian-vote.200403
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