Richard Stallman’s return to the Free
Software Foundation’s board of
directors has provoked a flurry of responses, and many organizations in
the free-software community have expressed their unhappiness with that
appointment. In almost every case, the process leading up to that
expression has been carried out behind closed doors. The Debian project,
instead, is deciding what to do in a classic Debian way — holding a public
vote on a general resolution with a wide range of possible outcomes.

Source: LWN.net – [$] Debian votes on a statement — and a leader