>>"Anthony" == Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Anthony> On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 12:03 PM, Branden Robinson wrote: >> I suggest you ask the Project Secretary's opinion before pursuing this >> line of reasoning too far (7.1.3). Anthony> If the secretary doesn't chime in to this thread, I'll try and Anthony> remember to ask. I'll also do some thorough searching to see if I can Anthony> find it mentioned previously. Two year ago, we had nother GR that was held up pending the resolution of the voting methodology, and this GR was to disambiguate the process of modifying or superceding documents. The topic was controversial then, and is likely to be controversial now. There was an amendment to the GR (and I think I was the proposer) that would introduce the a special cased class called foundation documents, to cover initially the constitution, the social contract, and the DFSG, and proposed that these documents require a rough consensus in order to be altered or superceded. I intend to bring that GR out of the mothballs once the voting GR is done. I would rather that we resolve the disagreement about modifying the social contract, and determine the mechanisms to do so, and determine whether a constitutional amendment is needed at all to insert wording about amending/superceding core documents before we go to the non free GR. I think I had mentioned earlier that the voting GR was the first of 3 GR's that have been pending since before my tenure started, and that I fully intended to process them as fast as we can. manoj -- "We're running out of adjectives to describe our situation. We had crisis, then we went into chaos, and now what do we call this?" said Nicaraguan economist Francisco Mayorga, who holds a doctorate from Yale. The Washington Post, February, 1988 The New Yorker's comment: At Harvard they'd call it a noun. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]