Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm current requirements for GR sponsoring

[Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>]

Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I am hereby proposing the amendment below to the general resolution
> entitled "Enhance requirements for General resolutions".
> 
> PROPOSAL START
> =====================================================================
> General Resolutions are an important framework within the Debian
> Project. While over those years, some problems have arised during the
> discussion and/or voting of some resolutions, there is no evidence that
> changing the number of sponsors (seconds) for GR proposals or amendments
> will help solve those problems.  Instead, by making it harder to propose
> general resolutions or amendments, it might make it harder to improve
> imperfect resolutions, or to add valuable options to a ballot.
> 
> Therefore the Debian project reaffirms the current requirements for the
> sponsoring (seconding) of GR proposals or amendments, and for overruling
> of delegates.
> =====================================================================
> PROPOSAL END

I second this.

> Also, it would be great if the title of the GR was "enhanced" with
> s/Enhance/Change/.

This also - the current GR title has an unfortunate air of not being
entirely neutral.

Matthew

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