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Re: [CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT] Disambiguation of 4.1.5



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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:

I second this proposal (that is needed, right?)

The rest is just some comments on proposal A:

>  4. The Developers by way of General Resolution or election
>  
>    4.1. Powers
>    
>     Together, the Developers may:

>      2. Amend this constitution, 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. 

Is it wise to let amendments to the constitution be regulated by two
rules? Why not drop the first rule to improve maintainability.

- -- 
"If I had been brought up in a different time [...] perhaps I'd
 be totally comfortable in ML and would find C unsafe, a little 
 dangerous, not very expressive."             - Brian Kernighan
                         
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