On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 05:18:25PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:43:18AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > The side effect being that removing the non-free section of our archive > > will only need a normal GR, or even a decision of the tech comitee, > > instead of needing a 3:1 (super) majority, like it does now, right ? > > Not exactly. It changes the removal of non-free from being something > that is effectively forbidden by the Social Contract, to something that > isn't forbidden by the Social Contract. > > There isn't a neat bin the issue gets sorted into. Do we need a GR to > change the eligibility requirements for inclusion in contrib or > non-free? How about subdividing contrib or non-free? How about adding > sections to main? Have we ever had a GR about these kinds of issues > before? (The latter is a rhetorical question; I don't think we have.) > > How we deal with these questions under the existing Social Contract is > precisely how we'd deal with the potential elimination of non-free if my > proposed amendments are accepted. > > I expect we'll continue to handle archive organization issues much the > same way we always have, unless we decide to change that. But that's > orthogonal to my proposal. All my proposed amendment does is make > available a new option to those who make large-scale decisions about the > Debian archive.
Still, currently you need a 3:1 majority to drop it, which is the vote you are currently having, while after this vote you only need a normal majority, or nothing. But you don't go and say this clearly. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
