On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 11:54:19AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Kurt Roeckx <[email protected]> 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
