Bug#636783: proposed constitution fix for super-majority within the tech ctte

2012-03-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes (Re: Bug#636783: proposed constitution fix for super-majority within the tech ctte): * Explicitly being allowed to have private discussions on the subject of who should maintain a particular package. The options should be: - private discussions when we feel

Bug#636783: proposed constitution fix for super-majority within the tech ctte

2012-03-20 Thread Andreas Barth
* Ian Jackson (ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk) [120320 13:01]: This would be in the form of a TC resolution along these lines: For the purposes of accepting or rejecting amendments to this GR proposal, according to Constitution A.1(2), we delegate to name the power to accept

Bug#636783: proposed constitution fix for super-majority within the tech ctte

2012-03-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: I think I agree. Perhaps we should offer that as the only option for change. How about this: In Constitution 6.3 (wdiff -i): 3. Public [-discussion and-] decision-making. [-Discussion,-] Draft resolutions and

Bug#636783: proposed constitution fix for super-majority within the tech ctte

2012-03-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli lea...@debian.org writes: Let me then re-propose something that I have proposed at DebConf11 (or was it DebConf10?) during the tech-ctte session. I suggest to the tech-ctte to hold periodic public IRC meetings, *just* to go through the list of open issues. It can be as

Bug#636783: proposed constitution fix for super-majority within the tech ctte

2012-03-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Russ Allbery wrote: I would be willing to make time to attend a public IRC meeting for this purpose. I would as well. I believe we are all primarily in Europe and North America, so this should be fairly easy to do, even if it's just for 15-30 minutes every month. Don

Bug#636783: proposed constitution fix for super-majority within the tech ctte

2012-03-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Don Armstrong writes (Bug#636783: proposed constitution fix for super-majority within the tech ctte): On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Russ Allbery wrote: I would be willing to make time to attend a public IRC meeting for this purpose. I would as well. I believe we are all primarily in Europe

Bug#636783: proposed constitution fix for super-majority within the tech ctte

2012-03-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Barth a...@ayous.org writes: * Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [120319 05:10]: I would be happy to go forward with the GR to fix the supermajority rule by itself, since I think it's uncontroversial and could be easily passed. Good. In that case I think we should just call for votes,

Bug#636783: proposed constitution fix for super-majority within the tech ctte

2012-03-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Andreas Barth writes: As I got no further comments from other people of the tech ctte, this can only mean that everyone agrees with this version, or is not interessted. I think the version I quote (as amended) is the best. I agree with

Bug#636783: proposed constitution fix for super-majority within the tech ctte

2011-08-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Barth writes (Bug#636783: proposed constitution fix for super-majority within the tech ctte): + 2. An option A defeats the default option D provided that: + (a) V(A,D) is strictly greater than V(D,A); and + (b) if a supermajority of N:1

Bug#636783: proposed constitution fix for super-majority within the tech ctte

2011-08-20 Thread Andreas Barth
* Peter Palfrader (wea...@debian.org) [110814 22:11]: Hey, On Sat, 06 Aug 2011, Anthony Towns wrote: - 2. An option A defeats the default option D by a majority ratio -N, if V(A,D) is strictly greater than N * V(D,A). - 3. If a supermajority of S:1 is

Bug#636783: proposed constitution fix for super-majority within the tech ctte

2011-08-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 07:48, Andreas Barth a...@not.so.argh.org wrote: Therefor, I propose to replace this by: A.6.3.2: | An option A defeats the default option D by a majority ratio of 1, | if V(A,D) is strictly greater than V(D,A). An option A defeats the | default option D by a majority

Bug#636783: proposed constitution fix for super-majority within the tech ctte

2011-08-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Anthony Towns (a...@azure.humbug.org.au) [110806 11:31]: On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 07:48, Andreas Barth a...@not.so.argh.org wrote: Therefor, I propose to replace this by: A.6.3.2: | An option A defeats the default option D by a majority ratio of 1, | if V(A,D) is strictly greater than

Bug#636783: proposed constitution fix for super-majority within the tech ctte

2011-08-05 Thread Andreas Barth
Package: tech-ctte Hi, I'm asking the tech ctte to propose the following GR. Reason for going via the tech ctte is that this is really only relevant for the tech ctte. A.6.3.2 currently says: | An option A defeats the default option D by a majority ratio N, if | V(A,D) is strictly greater than