First Interview: Sam Hocevar, New Debian Project Leader | Linux Today

First Interview: Sam Hocevar, New Debian Project Leader

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Bruce Byfield
Apr 30, 2007

Linux.com: What are your first priorities as
Debian Project Leader?

Sam Hocevar: The first thing I need to do is
to gather information about current internal conflicts and tensions
that could prevent certain people from working together, or at
least make those organisational changes require more diplomacy.

“I plan to focus on the social part of my platform, mostly
because they require more time to do properly. People didn’t wait
for my election to start doing the technical stuff I talked about:
We have a Google Summer of Code project for a Web interface to our
bug tracking system, at least one tool is under development for the
debugging infrastructure, and quite a few proposals about improving
the Web site have popped up…”

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