Re: PROPOSED: [CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT] Alternate disambiguation of 4.1.5
It seems to me that a 3:1 majority is exceedingly excessive; requiring
75% of people to agree seems to me to be an unreasonably high limit.
-- John
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> + foundations of its structure. The developers may
> + modify a foundation document provided they agree with a 3:1
> + majority.
>
> -- + 5.2 Initially, the list of foundation Documents consists
> + of this document, The Debian Constitution, as well as the
> + documents known as the Debian GNU/Linux Social Contract and the
> + Debian Free Software Guidelines. The list of the documents
> + that are deemed to be "Foundation Documents" may be changed
> + by the developers provided they agree with a 3:1 majority.
> 6. Together with the Project Leader and SPI, make decisions about
> property held in trust for purposes related to Debian. (See
> s.9.1.)
> ======================================================================
> Rationale: The clause being modified has been seen recently to be quite
> ambiguous. Since the original wording appeared to be amenable to two
> wildly different interpretations, this change adds clarifying language to
> the constitution about _changing_ or withdrawing nontechnical documents.
> Additionally, this also provides for the core, or Foundation, documents of
> the project the same protection against hasty changes that the
> constitution itself enjoys.
> ======================================================================
>
> manoj
>
> If you are what you eat, does that mean Euell Gibbons really was a
> nut?
> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
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>
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Sr. Software Developer, Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. www.progenylinux.com
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