On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 09:21:41AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Didier 'OdyX' Raboud" <odyx@debian.org> writes: > > Le dimanche, 19 janvier 2014, 12.39:01 Ian Jackson a écrit : > > >> I agree. I think that would be quite bad. We could explicitly state > >> in our TC resolution that the TC decision can be vacated by General > >> Resolution on a simple majority. > > > I don't think our constitution allows a resolution of the TC to change > > how §4.1.4 has to be interpreted for a GR overriding it[0]. It would > > certainly need to be checked with the secretary (CC'ed, just in case). > > Personally, I think we should amend the constitution to remove this > requirement, but in the meantime, it's obviously possible for the TC to > change its own decision. So, failing any other approach, the TC can > simply vote to adopt the GR decision as its own decision, which only > requires a simple majority in the TC (assuming this isn't a matter that > involves a maintainer override). > Indeed, or at least to allow this to happen if tech-ctte wishes it. > I'll defer to the secretary on whether it makes sense for the TC to do > this in advance, or whether to be formally correct we would have to do so > after the GR had passed. > So will I, but I believe it should be sufficiently clear at the moment to the developer body at large where the -ctte's view on this matter is. Neil --
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