On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 08:09:15AM +0200, Ansgar wrote: > On Mon, 2022-09-05 at 21:51 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > You can argue that the developers making the installer and live images, > > and those maintaining the website can make those decisions. You can even > > say that they have made decisions. So those options could be seen as > > overriding a Developer, using the power of the Technical Committee. > > > > Assuming we actually went that way, 6.1.4 requires a 3:1 majority, but > > 4.1.4 only a 2:1 majority. I think we take the highest majority > > requirement in that case, so 3:1. > > I think it is bad to transfer supermajority requirements among one > group of voters (tech-ctte) to a very different group of voters (all > DD). Though I agree the constitution is not clear on this. > > It might be better to just get rid of both supermajority requirements: > if 50% of all DDs agree on some implementation detail, it's probably > fine to do it that way. I don't see a good reason to require 67% to > agree: that would be the supermajority requirement for constitutional > changes in several countries (e.g., Germany).
Note that 3:1 is more like 75%, 2:1 is like 67%. Kurt