* Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>, 2015-10-26, 21:22:
----- GENERAL RESOLUTION STARTS -----
Constitutional Amendment: TC Supermajority Fix
Prior to the Clone Proof SSD GR in June 2003, the Technical
Committee could overrule a Developer with a supermajority of 3:1.
Unfortunately, the definition of supermajorities in the SSD GR has a
off-by-one error. In the new text a supermajority requirement is met
only if the ratio of votes in favour to votes against is strictly
greater than the supermajority ratio.
In the context of the Technical Committee voting to overrule a
developer that means that it takes 4 votes to overcome a single
dissenter. And with a maximum committee size of 8, previously two
dissenters could be outvoted by all 6 remaining members; now that
is no longer possible.
This change was unintentional, was contrary to the original intent
of the Constitution, and is unhelpful.
For the avoidance of any doubt, this change does not affect any
votes (whether General Resolutions or votes in the Technical
Committee) in progress at the time the change is made.
Therefore, amend the Debian Constitution as follows:
Index: doc/constitution.wml
===================================================================
--- doc/constitution.wml (revision 10982)
+++ doc/constitution.wml (working copy)
@@ -913,7 +913,7 @@
</li>
<li>
An option A defeats the default option D by a majority
- ratio N, if V(A,D) is strictly greater than N * V(D,A).
+ ratio N, if V(A,D) is greater or equal to N * V(D,A) and V(A,D) is strictly greater than V(D,A).
</li>
<li>
If a supermajority of S:1 is required for A, its majority ratio
Constitutional Amendment: Fix duplicate section numbering.
The current Debian Constitution has two sections numbered A.1.
This does not currently give rise to any ambiguity but it is
undesirable.
Fix this with the following semantically neutral amendment:
- Renumber the first section A.1 to A.0.
----- GENERAL RESOLUTION ENDS -----
Seconded. -- Jakub Wilk
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