On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 04:02:47PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 11:43:05AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:22:27 +1000, Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> said: > > > Perhaps for our next GR, we can contemplate whether it's appropriate > > > that less than 20% of the developers is enough to change one of our > > > most important documents. In fact, it could have been changed with > > > as few as 35, being less than 4%. That is, a 3:1 majority of > > > quorum(45.274). That's a very uncomfortable feeling. > > > > That is bot, BTW, how quorum works. You would need at least > > 46 people to change the foundation documents, as long as they were of > > one mind. > > No, you need 46 people and only three quarters of them need agree. > That is less than 4% of our developer community. That's a mischaracterisation. You also need *all* the other developers to be absent or apathetic. If that were the case then there's a great deal of dead weight, and it would indeed be reasonable to pass the change without them. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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