"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only thing I care about is that SPI only accept a defined number of > roles, preferably two or less that are allowed to communicate those > decisions.
Why? SPI is not proposing to do that for OpenOffice.org. Only the vague term "liaison" is specified, and it is proposed that SPI recognises an OpenOffice.org council process at an external URL. Really, is resolving that: The OpenOffice.org liason to SPI will be elected by the OpenOffice.org community council according to the process documented at http://council.openoffice.org/advisor-process.html. The initial liason will be Louis Suarez-Potts. significantly different from The Debian Constitution (http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution), and the persons holding the roles it defines and acting according to that Constitution, are recognised by SPI as ultimately authoritative regarding decisions of the Debian Project. [...] The Board will recognise decisions, statements and delegations made by the Debian Project Leader, currently Anthony Towns, as made on behalf of Debian. except using a few fewer words? The rest of the proposed debian declaration is simply factual or request, after all. > If Debian finds that their roles are cutting the bill, Debian needs to > deal with it, not SPI. Debian could deal with it, simply by holding a > vote, removing the person and having another vote to place a different > person in the role. I think that would be changing the person, not changing the role. If SPI is awkward enough to name particular roles in debian and not recognise the debian project process, then changing the roles will require SPI to pass another resolution. SPI is considering recognising OpenOffice.org's process - why is it a problem to recognise debian's process? Regards, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Webmaster/web developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop maker, developer of koha, debian, gobo, gnustep, various mail and web s/w. Workers co-op @ Weston-super-Mare, Somerset http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
