Dear secretary,
(CC'ing FTP Master and TC for information)
The TC has recently been running in circles with different considerations
about its possibility to override delegate's decisions. I'm therefore hereby
requesting an interpretation of the constitution on the following questions:
* Generally, can the Technical Committee override delegates' decisions?
- How does the last sentence in §2 [0] apply?
- Would it then do it under §6.1.2 (simple majority) or §6.1.4
(3:1 majority)?
- Is this only possible for "The Developers by way of GR" through §4.1.3 ?
* Specifically, given the current delegation of the FTP Masters [1], assuming a
decision about non-suitability for the 'main' suite for a specific package
according to their interpretation of the DFSG, could the TC override their
decision to let the package enter 'main' nevertheless?
* In general, given the FTP Masters current delegation and the constitution,
which of the 'Developers by way of GR' or the FTP Masters have the powers to
decide about suitability for 'main' (aka 'DFSG interpretation') ?
[Feel free to leave this eminently political and complicated question
unanswered for now; I suspect the answer might be 'it is currently undefined';
in which case we could have a larger debate in the community.]
For the avoidance of doubt: It is very unlikely we will be overriding the FTP
Masters in #839570, but the question keeps popping up and having it resolved
one way or the other would help reduce the amount of noise in the discussion.
--
Cheers,
OdyX
[0] "In the list above, a person or body is usually listed before any people
or bodies whose decisions they can overrule or who they (help) appoint - but
not everyone listed earlier can overrule everyone listed later." (where the TC
is listed before Delegates)
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