Re: General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives
On Thu, 01 Dec 2005, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Debian Project Secretary:
>
> > In accordance with principles of openness and transparency, Debian
> > will seek to declassify and publish posts of historical or ongoing
> > significance made to the Debian Private Mailing List.
> >
> > This process will be undertaken under the following constraints:
> >
> > * The Debian Project Leader will delegate one or more volunteers
> > to form the debian-private declassification team.
>
> If I read the constitution correctly, you cannot decide such a thing
> by GR.
This resolution appears to fall under §4.1.5; an argument could also
make for it falling under §4.1.3, but that's less clear cut.
For those following along at home:
§4.1.5: [Togther the developers may] Issue, supersede and withdraw
nontechnical policy documents and statements.
I submit that the proposal is a nontechnical policy document.
[Obviously, the Secretary is the one who makes this determination
under §7.1.3, so presumably Manoj has already thought about which part
of the constitution this proposal falls under.]
Don Armstrong
--
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