On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:37:12AM -0400, David Coe wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes: > Because A, B, and C all make the same change to the first sentence of > paragraph 5: > > > - 5. Issue nontechnical policy documents and statements. > > + 5. Issue, supersede and withdraw nontechnical policy documents and > > + statements. > > what will happen if none of them receives a 3:1 majority, but the sum > of the three does? I expect our *intent* would be to act on Proposal > B, since its change is included entirely in A and C -- is that what > would happen, or do wee need to disambiguate the disambiguation vote? No, the proposals are considered "atomic", and each must succeed or fail on its own merits. Historically, I proposed something similar to proposal B first, back in 2000, and it was Manoj's objection to that which prompted him to draft a prototype of proposal A. It is therefore not reasonable to assume that those who like proposals A or C would be comfortable with proposal B passing. -- G. Branden Robinson | The power of accurate observation Debian GNU/Linux | is frequently called cynicism by branden@debian.org | those who don't have it. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- George Bernard Shaw
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