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Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution



martin f krafft dijo [Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 03:58:34PM +0200]:
> I would like to propose the following amendment to Marga's GR:
> 
> In addition to the proposed change, the project shall vote to
> empower the DPL together with the Project Secretary to make minor
> editorial changes in our foundation documents without requiring
> the process of a GR.
> 
> To protect our foundations, such a change must be announced and can
> only be put into effect following a four week period during which no
> opposing GR has been launched.

I don't really like the idea. While holding a GR is a burden, the
occurence of such an event should be rare enough that we can spare a
couple of weeks while the regular process is carried out.

Remember we have had very deep changes¹ leading to correspondingly
deep flamewars² because of incomplete interpretations of "minor"
editorial changes.

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¹ https://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_003

² Such as the thread starting at
  https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/04/msg01929.html

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