La Salle Debain

For the second year in a row, I didn't vote in the DPL election. Not because I have lost interest in Debian affairs but because nothing is really going on that demands my attention. All three of the candidates who ran this year were eminently capable of representing of Debian and its ideals, all three had more or less the same vision for the role of DPL (IMO. See here for platforms,) and all three are, as far as I know, nice people. Organizational and social problems that previously existed have been fixed. The only problem I have with Debian these days is a lack of time but I can hardly expect the DPL to do anything about that.

However, a recent post from Lucas reminded me that there is one group for which all is not fine and dandy. Given that this is the same complaint that has been made for atleast five years nows, one has to wonder why it remains singularly unfixable? Well I don't know but this delegation makes me confident that we will finally see the end of this last bottleneck too. Joerg is the one who sped up NEW package processing and I am sure he will have account creation humming along in no time.

I sympathize with the frustration people stuck in NM feel, but I would like to remind them that Debian acts the way Winston Churchill observed the United States does:

"Americans can always be depended upon to do the right thing—after they've tried everything else."