On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 04:24:52PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > I, too, would like to re-propose the General Resolution I proposed three > years ago. (This is substantively the same, with only minor wording > changes.) > > ====================================================================== > 4. The Developers by way of General Resolution or election > > 4.1. Powers > > Together, the Developers may: > 1. Appoint or recall the Project Leader. > 2. Amend this constitution, provided they agree with a 3:1 majority. > 3. Override any decision by the Project Leader or a Delegate. > 4. Override any decision by the Technical Committee, provided they > agree with a 2:1 majority. > - 5. Issue nontechnical policy documents and statements. > - These include documents describing the goals of the project, its > - relationship with other free software entities, and nontechnical > - policies such as the free software licence terms that Debian > - software must meet. > - They may also include position statements about issues of the day. > + 5. Issue, withdraw, and supsersede nontechnical policy documents > + and statements. These include documents describing the goals of > + the project, its relationship with other free software entities, > + and nontechnical policies such as the free software licence > + terms that Debian software must meet. > + They may also include position statements about issues of the day. > > ====================================================================== > Rationale: The clause being modified has been seen to be quite > ambiguous. Since the original wording appeared to be amenable to two > wildly different interpretations, this change adds clarifying the > language in the constitution about _changing_ non technical > documents. > ====================================================================== I second the above amendment. Jochen -- http://seehuhn.de/
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