On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 03:27:56PM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: > I'm therefore proposing the following General Resolution: > > === BEGIN GR TEXT === > > Title: Replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution > > All appearances of the word Chairman shall be replaced with the word Chair. > > === END GR TEXT === > > This change can be applied by a simple sed command (s/Chairman/Chair/g). I'm > attaching the diff between the current constitution document and the output of > said sed command to make it explicit that no other changes are intended. > --- constitution.wml 2016-02-25 08:03:04.000000000 +0100 > +++ constitution.new.wml 2016-07-08 15:18:41.857474553 +0200 > @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ > > <li>The Project Leader;</li> > > - <li>The Technical Committee and/or its Chairman;</li> > + <li>The Technical Committee and/or its Chair;</li> > > <li>The individual Developer working on a particular task;</li> > > @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ > > <li> > <p>A person may hold several posts, except that the Project Leader, > - Project Secretary and the Chairman of the Technical Committee must > + Project Secretary and the Chair of the Technical Committee must > be distinct, and that the Leader cannot appoint themselves as their > own Delegate.</p> > </li> > @@ -460,10 +460,10 @@ > </li> > > <li> > - <p>Appoint the Chairman of the Technical Committee.</p> > + <p>Appoint the Chair of the Technical Committee.</p> > > <p> > - The Chairman is elected by the Committee from its members. All > + The Chair is elected by the Committee from its members. All > members of the committee are automatically nominated; the > committee votes starting one week before the post will become > vacant (or immediately, if it is already too late). The members > @@ -476,10 +476,10 @@ > </li> > > <li> > - <p>The Chairman can stand in for the Leader, together with the > + <p>The Chair can stand in for the Leader, together with the > Secretary</p> > > - <p>As detailed in §7.1(2), the Chairman of the Technical > + <p>As detailed in §7.1(2), the Chair of the Technical > Committee and the Project Secretary may together stand in for the > Leader if there is no Leader.</p> > </li> > @@ -561,10 +561,10 @@ > <li> > <p>Details regarding voting</p> > > - <p>The Chairman has a casting vote. When the Technical Committee > + <p>The Chair has a casting vote. When the Technical Committee > votes whether to override a Developer who also happens to be a > member of the Committee, that member may not vote (unless they are > - the Chairman, in which case they may use only their casting > + the Chair, in which case they may use only their casting > vote).</p> > </li> > > @@ -627,10 +627,10 @@ > </li> > > <li> > - <p>Can stand in for the Leader, together with the Chairman of the > + <p>Can stand in for the Leader, together with the Chair of the > Technical Committee.</p> > > - <p>If there is no Project Leader then the Chairman of the > + <p>If there is no Project Leader then the Chair of the > Technical Committee and the Project Secretary may by joint > agreement make decisions if they consider it imperative to do > so.</p> > @@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ > > <p>If there is no Project Secretary or the current Secretary is > unavailable and has not delegated authority for a decision then the > -decision may be made or delegated by the Chairman of the Technical > +decision may be made or delegated by the Chair of the Technical > Committee, as Acting Secretary.</p> > > <p>The Project Secretary's term of office is 1 year, at which point > @@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ > Developers.</p> > > <p>When acting together to stand in for an absent Project Leader the > -Chairman of the Technical Committee and the Project Secretary should > +Chair of the Technical Committee and the Project Secretary should > make decisions only when absolutely necessary and only when consistent > with the consensus of the Developers.</p> > Seconded. Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern
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