On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:02:08AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:40:08 +0200, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 10:27:12PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Proponents of various various amendments to the GR should feel free > >> to send me a couple of paragraphs in HTML markup to > >> introduce/explain the resolutions they are proposing. Feel free to > >> include external links to more extensice body of supporting > >> material in the paragraphs you send me, but please keep theese > >> paragraphs short and to the point. > >> > >> I certainly don't want to include hundreds of lines of additional > >> material directly on the vote page. Please indicate if the content > >> is preambulatory or postambulatory. > >> > >> manoj > > > hi Manoj, ... > > > I wonder where Frederik's proposal fits in this ? > > Since it has been decreed that the secretary has no discretion > in putting up properly proposed and seconded text, this request is > now moot. > > We do have an issue now with people seconding extraneous text, > including signatures and extra material in the email; since if people > want a secretary with no powers to decide what is and is not > resolution text, then if person A seconds a proposal with > accompanying matter (someone just seconded Don Armstrongs proposal, > and did not elide the vote.d.o fragment); and person B carefully > edits and seconds a subset of the original email, then they are not > seconding the same sequence of bytes. > > Previously, I would have exercised judgement -- but I have > been informed a Debian delegate that that was gross and egregious > abuse of my power as a secretary. > > At this point, I am unsure what to do --- technically, since > the proposals seconded are unlikely to be identical, byte for byte, > unless people get less sloppy about the process, a secretary without > a brain can't count the seconds as belonging to the same proposal.
Ah, well. Let me propose a new GR then ... Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
