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Re: [BALLOT] Social Contract Change Amendment



>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org> writes:
>>>>> "jurgen" == Jürgen A Erhard <juergen.erhard@gmx.net> writes:

    jurgen> Sadly, I must agree... the Secretary is appointed for 1
    jurgen> year... and once s/he is appointed, no one can change that
    jurgen> until the term runs out.

    Stephen> No, it's not sad, it's necessary to prevent a
    Stephen> dictatorship from arising because the DPL just replaces
    Stephen> people as soon as they do something he doesn't like or
    Stephen> agree with.  Debian has been down that particular road
    Stephen> before; it's why we have a Constitution.

I said that no-one can recall the Secretary... it's good that the DPL
can't, but it's bad that not even the developers as a whole can.  (The
DPL can be recalled, as in §4.1.1...)

Bye, J

PS: This is just a comment on the constitution, and should not under
any circumstances be construed to be a (positive or negative) comment
on Darren's performance as currect Secretary...

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