Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:22:27 +1000, Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> said:
> Perhaps for our next GR, we can contemplate whether it's appropriate
> that less than 20% of the developers is enough to change one of our
> most important documents. In fact, it could have been changed with
> as few as 35, being less than 4%. That is, a 3:1 majority of
> quorum(45.274). That's a very uncomfortable feeling.
That is bot, BTW, how quorum works. You would need at least
46 people to change the foundation documents, as long as they were of
one mind.
I find it amusing that we have people who were horrified how
hard it would be to change a foundation document when that GR
was proposed, and now we have another set horrified at how easy
it is change one.
manoj
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