Re: Amendment to GR Option 1: Hide Identities of Developers Casting a Particular Vote

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 11:54:19AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> writes:
> 
> > I've been reading our new constitution about the discussion period. What
> > I find is this in A.1.1:
> > The discussion period starts when a draft resolution is proposed and
> > sponsored. The minimum discussion period is 2 weeks. The maximum
> > discussion period is 3 weeks.
> 
> > And in A.1.4:
> > The addition of a ballot option or the change via an amendment of a
> > ballot option changes the end of the discussion period to be one
> > week from when that action was done [...]
> 
> > As I see it, there is only a minimum and a maximum, but not some
> > default. After it's over, the secretary just call for vote. My
> > interpretation is that as long as the minimum and maximum is not the
> > same, the secretary can declare that the period is over after the
> > minimum is over, but can also wait until the maximum is over before
> > declaring it's over.
> 
> > So I can actually already say when the voting period is going to be,
> > and am going for Saturday 2022-03-19 to Friday 2022-04-01, which will
> > then directly be followed by the DPL vote.
> 
> Interesting.  That was certainly not my intent when I wrote it (which
> doesn't mean that it's necessarily wrong).  The intent was to explicitly
> set the end of the discussion period to match the minimum discussion
> period at the start of the process, and then have the end of the
> discussion period vary according to A.1.4 up to the maximum.  I agree that
> I seem to have left out a sentence explicitly saying that, though.  (I
> think there may have been one in an earlier draft that was lost in
> subsequent editing.)
> 
> Regardless of whether that was my intent, at first glance I don't mind
> your interpretation.  It wasn't what I had intended, but it seems like a
> fairly reasonable system.

So reading A.1.4 again, I can also see it as just saying that it really
updates when the period is over. I think it would have just been more
clear if A.1.1 said "The initial discussion period is 2 weeks."


Kurt