Changing supermajority requirements

[Ansgar <ansgar@debian.org>]

Hi,

the Constitution has several supermajority requirements that seem
excessive to me:

Constitution changes:

+---
| 4.1.2: Amend this constitution, provided they agree with a 3:1 majority.
| [...]
| 5.1.5.3: A Foundation Document requires a 3:1 majority for its supersession. [...]
+---

Constitutional changes to my country's constitution only require a 2:1
majority. A 3:1 majority seems excessive for that reason and I would
suggest to change both of these to 2:1 for that reason.

I think a supermajority is fine for changing fundamental rules, so more
than a simple majority is okay.

Developer overriding tech ctte:

+---
| 4.1.4: Make or override any decision authorised by the powers of the
| Technical Committee, provided they agree with a 2:1 majority.
+---

I think this is excessive: if a (simple) majority of developers is
unhappy about some technical decisions, we should probably not do them.
So in my opinion this should be a simple 1:1 majority.

Tech ctte overriding a developer:

+---
| 6.1.4: Overrule a Developer (requires a 3:1 majority).
|
| The Technical Committee may ask a Developer to take a particular technical
| course of action even if the Developer does not wish to; this requires
| a 3:1 majority. For example, the Committee may determine that a complaint
| made by the submitter of a bug is justified and that the submitter's
| proposed solution should be implemented.
+---

I think this should only require a simple majority as well. Or at most
2:1, but I don't think there is a reason for it to be higher than a
simple majority.

Should we look at changing these?

Ansgar