Lucas Nussbaum <[email protected]> writes: > During the TC discussions in January/February 2014, the TC had a small > legitimacy crisis, that resulted in the GR override clause of the > default init resolution. I hope that the result of this GR will be able > to serve as input in future TC discussions on similar/related topics.
As one of the people who thought that clause was a good idea, I don't think that it's only there due to a legitimacy crisis. My opinion then, which continues to be my position now, is that requiring a supermajority to overrule the TC is a mistake. The bar for a GR is already high enough, and we, as a project, already tend to defer to existing decisions. I think that's enough protection against unnecessary reversals, and I think a TC decision opposed by 60% of the project but still enforced is a very unhealthy place to be. The clause allowing an override by simple majority was a hack to disable the constitution's super-majority requirement. I continue to be in favor of a constitutional amendment to remove the super-majority requirement for TC overrides via GR in general, thus eliminating the need for such hacks. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
