Hi Folks,
About three years ago, When we talked about this the last time
around, in the summer on 2000, there were two camp, with two wildly
different interpretations of the constitution, regarding section
4.1.5 of the constitution. This amendment was proposed to resolve
that ambiguity. We now have three related proposals, all of whom have
had the required number of sponsors.
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4.2. Procedure
1. The Developers follow the Standard Resolution Procedure, below. A
resolution or amendment is introduced if proposed by any Developer
and sponsored by at least K other Developers, or if proposed by
the Project Leader or the Technical Committee.
4. The minimum discussion period is 2 weeks, but may be varied by up
to 1 week by the Project Leader. The Project Leader has a casting
vote. There is a quorum of 3Q.
7. Q is half of the square root of the number of current Developers.
K is Q or 5, whichever is the smaller. Q and K need not be
integers and are not rounded.
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Many thanks to Andrew Suffield for collating this
information. Each proposal needs at least 5 seconds. Here are the
proposals, listed in chronological order.
Proposal A:
Proposed by: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200309/msg00047.html
Seconds:
1 Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200309/msg00053.html
2 Neil Roeth <neil@debian.org>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200309/msg00062.html
3 Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200309/msg00059.html
4 Matthias Urlichs <smurf@debian.org>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200309/msg00077.html
5 Joe Nahmias <jello@debian.org>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200309/msg00078.html
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Proposal B:
Proposed by: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200309/msg00025.html
Seconds:
1 Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200309/msg00027.html
2 Richard Braakman <dark@debian.org>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200309/msg00029.html
3 Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200309/msg00031.html
4 John H. Robinson, IV <jaqque@debian.org>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200309/msg00033.html
5 Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200309/msg00051.html
6 Jochen Voss <jello@debian.org>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200309/msg00058.html
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Proposal C:
Proposed by: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200309/msg00049.html
Seconds:
1 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200309/msg00054.html
2 John H. Robinson, IV <jaqque@debian.org>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200309/msg00070.html
3 Remi Vanicat <vanicat@debian.org>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200309/msg00071.html
4 Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200309/msg00073.html
5 Joe Nahmias <jello@debian.org>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200309/msg00076.html
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I now state that the formal discussion period starts at
Tue Sep 30 23:59:59 UTC 2003, and ends at Tue Oct 14 23:59:59 UTC
2003.
In the next couple of days, the text of the proposals, and a
rationale for each proposal shall be put up on
http://www.debian.org/vote/
manoj
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