Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-16 Thread Matthew Woodcraft
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: If there were something in the constitution detailing decision-making process around foundation documents and their interpretation, it would have made this whole conflict easier to resolve. But so far as I can tell, there isn't, apart from application to

Re: Constitutional Amendment GR: Handling assets for the project

2006-09-03 Thread Matthew Woodcraft
Anthony Towns wrote: On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 04:11:02PM +0100, Matthew Woodcraft wrote: Changes for the current draft: + In case the DPL and ex-secretary can't agree on an candidate for new secretary, the decision is made by the developers in a GR, and not by the SPI board. Would

Re: Constitutional Amendment GR: Handling assets for the project

2006-09-02 Thread Matthew Woodcraft
Changes for the current draft: + In case the DPL and ex-secretary can't agree on an candidate for new secretary, the decision is made by the developers in a GR, and not by the SPI board. Would this GR be conducted by the outgoing secretary? If the reason for the disagreement is that the

Re: RFD: informal proposal

2002-11-18 Thread Matthew Woodcraft
Anthony Towns wrote: There are two issues here. One is to work out direction most people want to go in. The other is to make sure we don't make fundamental changes to ourselves with signficant dissent. What about other cases where a supermajority is required -- eg, the technical committee

Re: RFD: informal proposal

2002-11-18 Thread Matthew Woodcraft
Anthony Towns wrote: There are two issues here. One is to work out direction most people want to go in. The other is to make sure we don't make fundamental changes to ourselves with signficant dissent. What about other cases where a supermajority is required -- eg, the technical committee

Re: Condorcet Voting and Supermajorities (Re: [CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT] Disambiguation of 4.1.5)

2000-12-07 Thread Matthew Woodcraft
Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In our past votes, we've variously had: Constituion: Yes/No/Further Discussion Election 1: [nominees] + None of the above Logo License: Single/Dual/Further Discussion New Logo: [submissions, including current logo] + Further

Re: Condorcet Voting and Supermajorities (Re: [CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT] Disambiguation of 4.1.5)

2000-12-07 Thread Matthew Woodcraft
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: In our past votes, we've variously had: Constituion: Yes/No/Further Discussion Election 1: [nominees] + None of the above Logo License: Single/Dual/Further Discussion New Logo: [submissions, including current logo] +