On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:27:00AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > hilliard@debian.org (Robert D. Hilliard) writes: > > > This is the heart of the matter. It is akin to the U.S. > > controversy over `activist' judges, who rule based on their beliefs of > > what should be, rather than on what the law says. At least in U.S. > > jurisprudence several levels of appellate review are available. Under > > the Debian Constitution no such appeals are available. This is a far > > more important point than the fate of John's GR. > > But under the Debian Constitution, it's pretty easy to override the > Secretary's judgement. No, it is not. The developers have to propose a GR to effectively do so, and the Project Secretary controls the timing and form of the ballot. There is no mechanism for appeal of a decision by the PS that doesn't involve him, and there is no mechanism for external arbitration or vote conduction. -- G. Branden Robinson | The greatest productive force is human Debian GNU/Linux | selfishness. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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