Re: Comments on the constitution?

2011-09-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:17:22AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Thanks for re-raising this topic. I guess --- given the amount of followups --- that this discussion is not particularly intriguing for many of us, but it still an important one to have. We won't be able to propose any change

Re: Comments on the constitution?

2011-09-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:08:45PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Hi, during the last DPL voting period, a question [1] about the current length of the DPL period came up. This topic was also discussed during recent DebConf11. So here's a wild idea I came up this morning while taking a

Re: Comments on the constitution?

2011-08-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Stefano Zacchiroli dijo [Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:17:22AM +0200]: (…) The main question is: how would people feel about a DPL standing for election for a 2 year period, provided that there is an easy way to call for a mid-term election after 1 year? Easy should be defined in a way that it is

Re: Comments on the constitution?

2011-08-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Steve McIntyre dijo [Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 08:16:19PM +0100]: Humm… An idea could be: ‣ The term is defined to be for one year, with the possibility of one automatic renewal ‣ If by (election date + 10 months) the DPL sends a (signed, validated, blah) message, a simple referendum is

Re: Comments on the constitution?

2011-08-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ M-F-T: debian-vote ] On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:08:45PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: during the last DPL voting period, a question [1] about the current length of the DPL period came up. This topic was also discussed during recent DebConf11. While I do not want to come up with a

Re: Comments on the constitution?

2011-08-29 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 29.08.2011, 10:17 +0200 schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: At present, I don't have any bright idea on how to implement the not socially awkward part preserving full transparency. A possibility might be to allow a given number of DDs to request in private a mid-term election to

Re: Comments on the constitution?

2011-08-29 Thread Joey Hess
Joachim Breitner wrote: How about reversing the action: By default, there is an election, unless a reasonable, well-defined number of DD publicly state that they see no need for a re-election. A variant on this that would not be susceptable to this: I think this works well unless we have the

Re: Comments on the constitution?

2011-08-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Joey Hess] ... Would perhaps be to have people state that they are only interested in a pro-forma election. If there's a consensus that the current DPL is well respected and should continue, then we could skip strawman candidates, DPL platforms, QA sessions, etc. (If NOTA wins, the

Re: Comments on the constitution?

2011-08-29 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:33:15PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: ... Would perhaps be to have people state that they are only interested in a pro-forma election. If there's a consensus that the current DPL is well respected and should continue, then we could skip strawman candidates, DPL platforms,

Re: Comments on the constitution?

2011-08-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:08:45PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: during the last DPL voting period, a question [1] about the current length of the DPL period came up. This topic was also discussed during recent DebConf11. While I do not want to come up with a change of the constitution at

Comments on the constitution?

2011-08-11 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, during the last DPL voting period, a question [1] about the current length of the DPL period came up. This topic was also discussed during recent DebConf11. While I do not want to come up with a change of the constitution at this point, I would like to hear a broader opinion on that topic.

Re: Comments on the constitution?

2011-08-11 Thread Guilherme de Siqueira Pastore
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:08:45PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: And while i was looking on our constitution, i found it doesn't say any given procedure if a DPL wants to step down. Kurt said to me during DebConf11 that, if that happens, he will immediately start an election process. Still