Jury

Ten seats. People who already ship Free Software.

Named jurors are published when an edition’s invitations go out. The seats below are what they judge: mergeable work, not theatre. They choose the three teams, assign the feature so nobody starts early, and decide which patch takes the prize.

Packaging seat

Debian & derivatives

User-facing seat

Desktop & accessibility

Infrastructure seat

Systems & networking

Editors & VCS seat

Developer tools

Data seat

Databases

End-user apps seat

Office & documents

Application seat

Web & PHP

Review seat

Security & licensing

Docs seat

Documentation

Process seat

Community & mentoring

A Debian seat on the jury is not a substitute for a backlog Debian users actually want. File the request anyway.