Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

[MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

This is an amendment to aj's proposal shown at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2007/07/msg00178.html

==== AMENDMENT PROPOSAL ====
Summary: reduce the campaign-only period to one week.

The change to paragraph four is replaced by:
    4. For [-three weeks-] {+one week+} after that no more candidates
       may be nominated; candidates should use this time for
       campaigning [-(to make their identities-] and [-positions
       known).-] {+discussion.+} If there are no candidates at the end
       of the nomination period then the nomination period is extended
       for [-three further weeks,-] {+an additional week,+} repeatedly
       if necessary.
==== AMENDMENT PROPOSAL ====

I ask for comments and/or seconds, or aj to accept this amendment.

My rationale:

The campaign-only period is the most annoying bit of DPL elections,
but it escaped cuts in aj's proposal.  Why?  Let's cut it too!

We could shorten the election process even more by removing it, but it
looks useful for organising things to have some gap between
nominations and voting, yet I don't see why we should keep it at three
weeks instead of one.  If any candidate wants to campaign for longer,
they should nominate as early as possible.

This is orthogonal to the amendment "Point 2 remains as before".

Regards,
- --
MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html
Experienced webmaster-developers for hire http://www.ttllp.co.uk/
Also: statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, workers co-op.
Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFGud1LmUY5euFC5vQRAl8eAJ9+/JqPtr5y6dipjXWVAjRn1zM72ACggjVo
qx3NnGmgJweaATxFYJWShjE=
=jjfJ
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----