On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 13:42 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Benjamin Caplan wrote: > > Geoffrey Spear wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Kerim Aydin<ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > >>> Quazie's probably chomping at the bit, so I'll say I planned to have the > >>> next draft of Cards circulating round about the 15th. �(remember idea is > >>> to not have them go through until after the Birthday). �-G. > >> > >> We just have to keep distributability around so we can make sure the > >> Cards proposal doesn't get distributed early enough to take effect > >> before the Birthday. > > > > Or we could just vote down early proposals. > > The next circulation will be "final draft", I was planning on erring on > the side of adopting a few days late; if it's made distributable for the > week of the 29th it won't be through voting until july. > > The other possibility was post-dating, "this proposal makes these rule > changes on July 1." But that's never been tested so I don't know if > that works with R106 (I don't see why not but I'd prefer to test before > trusting it).
Do it via a rule, rather than having the proposal floating around; I don't think a proposal can take effect at a time other than when it's adopted unless it can take predecence over a power-3 rule. -- ais523