On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 04:12:30PM +0200, Guido Trotter wrote: > > 1. that the amendments to the Social Contract contained within the > > General Resolution "Editorial Amendments To The Social Contract" > > (2004 vote 003) be immediately rescinded; > > 2. that these amendments, which have already been ratified by the Debian > > Project, will be reinstated effective as of September 1, 2004 without > > further cause for deliberation. > Just one comment... > This GR actually changes the SC, and thus is done according to the > constitution § 4.1.5 and requires 3:1 majority to pass... > This may be bad, since we've just changed the SC, and we actually don't > want to change it back. (It may be bad publicity too) > Can't we have a GR that simply overrules aj's decision about his personal > interpretation of the SC (according to the constitution § 4.1.3) and simply > reaffirms that the changes done to the social contract are only editorial, > and are done to clarify its meaning? > Actually none of us have any problems with the new SC, it's only aj's > decision to anticipate dealing with this issues before sarge, instead of > after it, that we don't like... I don't believe I have the moral authority to tell aj that he's wrong to follow the Social Contract more strictly than I would. Do you? I also think that, whichever way the GR is worded, it warrants the 3:1 supermajority requirement because it does impact our implementation of the foundation documents. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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