Re: Amendment of Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003
* Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) [040428 18:25]:
> > hereby resolves:
> >
> > 1. that the amendments to the Social Contract contained within the
> > General Resolution "Editorial Amendments To The Social Contract"
> > (2004 vote 003) be immediately rescinded;
> > 2. that these amendments, which have already been ratified by the Debian
> > Project, will be reinstated effective as of September 1, 2004 without
> > further cause for deliberation.
> While I would certainly prefer this to "further discussion", I would
> like to propose the following amendment. (Alert eyes will note that it's
> Option C from Jeroen's post yesterday; I drafted the text that forms the
> basis of that Option anyway. I talked to Jeroen, who says he's currently
> busy with real-life tasks.)
> Points 1. and 2. above are removed and replaced with:
>
> 1. that the following text be appended to the first clause of the
> Social Contract:
>
> We apologize that the current state of some of our documentation and
> kernel drivers with binary-only firmware does not live up to this
> part of our Social Contract. While Sarge will not meet this standard
> in those areas, we promise to rectify this in the following release.
Though I understand some advantages of this, I think it will clutter
the SC. Therefore, I would prefer to have this as clause 6 with a
title like "Our standards were not always so strict", "Freedom of
software is going to be stricter now" or similar.
> The first clause of the Social Contract as amended will read as
> follows:
> [...]
>
> We apologize that the current state of some of our documentation and
> kernel drivers does not live up to this part of our Social Contract.
> While Debian 3.1 (codenamed sarge) will not meet this standard in
> those areas, we promise to rectify this in the next full release.
These texts are slightly different.
Another annotation: This is not only valid for sarge, but also for
woody etc. So I'd like the following change ".. sarge) _and_ _before_
will ...".
> I'm looking for seconds for this amendment.
I second hereby your proposals, without or with the small changes I
proposed above (or that others are going to propose).
Cheers,
Andi
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