Bug#210879: marked as done (constitution.txt: revise odd language -- "K Developers"... "not integers")
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From: A Costa <agcosta@gis.net>
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Subject: constitution.txt: revise odd language -- "K Developers"... "not integers"
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There's some odd language in '/usr/share/doc/debian/constitution.txt':
1 A resolution or amendment is introduced if proposed by any Developer
2 and sponsored by at least K other Developers...
...and the number 'K' is later defined, in part, as follows:
3 Q and K need not be integers and are not rounded.
This implies fractional Developers. In line #2 above the author must
have meant an integer, (or rather a natural number -- there aren't any
negative numbers of Developers), but saying "at least" leaves room for
doubt, especially since line #3 says K isn't rounded!
Example: suppose K=4.4; but by line #3 'K' is not rounded, (if it were we'd
know a quorum would be at least 5, or 4.4 rounded up), and if it's not
rounded then .4 of a Developer means who knows what.
For line #3 I suggest changing 'integers' to 'natural numbers' or 'whole
numbers', and 'and are not rounded' to 'and are rounded up when counting
people, but not when counting votes.' ...or something to the same
effect.
(Of course we all know a Constitution is by design not as easy to amend
as a garden variety typo. Difficulty shouldn't justify errors though.)
Hope this helps us become wholly impartial.
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I hesitate to say this, but please actually listen to "Please do not
reopen this bug unless you have anything new to add" and "I think you
should demonstrate consensus on -project that there is a problem".
Thank you.
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