Re: Constitutional amendment: reduce the length of DPL election process

[Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Anthony Towns wrote:
>     2. The election begins [-nine-] {+six+} weeks before the leadership
>        post becomes vacant, or (if it is too late already) immediately.

Is there any reason to reduce this time period? Having a buffer zone
of three weeks is useful for continuity and/or cases where the
nomination period must be extended (though it leads to a short lame
duck period).


Don Armstrong

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