I would say that your interpretation is a bit of a stretch. It would mean that the constitution could be changed by only 25% of the members. In retrospect, I think that the importance of everyone voting perhaps should have been made clearer since in this case not voting would be the same as voting in the negative. But this also shows how important it is that the core contributor status expire, since the requirements to amend the constitution would become impossible over time otherwise.
Gavin Maltby wrote: > Stephen Hahn wrote: > >> - With respect to Question 2, the Constitution remains unchanged with >> 218 Ayes, 31 Nays, and 22 Abstaining. With 466 Core Contributors, >> 234 Ayes were required for an affirmative majority. > > ... which would be reasonable if voting was compulsory for > core contributors, but since it isn't I'd have thought > we were looking for a majority vote from those that > actually bothered to vote. The current constitution > says it can be amended with "an affirmative vote of a majority > of the Members of record" which can be read in a few ways > (which says a lot about the current constitution!) one of > which is that: > > - we did have a "vote of a majority of the Members of > record", since 271 ballots were cast of a possible > maximum of 466 so we need 234 ballot for a majority > to have voted. > > - the result of that vote was affirmative > > Where/when was the interpretation of the amendment requirements > made? I, for one, had no idea that we were chasing an > absolute total until the result came out. > > Gavin > _______________________________________________ > core-contrib-discuss mailing list > core-contrib-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/core-contrib-discuss -- blu "You would think that spies would have to be light sleepers, but that isn't true. For instance, James Bond once slept through an earthquake. That's right, he was shaken but not stirred." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Ph:877-259-7345, Em:brian.utterback-at-ess-you-enn-dot-kom
