Re: Opposing strict time limits
Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> writes:
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 3:53 PM Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
>> makes it very easy to extend it .... This will probably happen for all
>> but the most urgent and uncontroversial GRs.
> Didn't we just see the opposite?
I don't understand the question. This statement is in the context of
Wouter's system for extending the discussion period via a proposal and
sponsors. That system does not currently exist, and therefore this could
not have happened or not happened in any previous GR.
> In the most recent referendum, the decisive argument for shortening was
> the existence of hardened fronts rather than a lack of controversy. Sam
> suspected that people had made up their minds. [1]
In the most recent referendum, the DPL shortened the discussion period,
which the current constitution gives the DPL the power to do. The
proposal to which you're responding is to drop that provision entirely in
favor of Wouter's system for deciding on extensions of the discussion
period. That modification of Wouter's system does not have any mechanism
for *shortening* the discussion period (instead, it starts at one week and
can only be lengthened), so no argument for shortening would even be
relevant in that system.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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