On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 03:00:29AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > Indeed, I had proposed this in -project on the 19th of > July. This addresses the same ambiguity that Brandon does in his > proposal, but in a distincly different fashion. I would suggest that > this should be offered as an alternative to Brandon's proposal, if it > comes to a vote (if the rules lawyers deem that permissible). If not, > this may stand on its own (leaving open the possibility that both, > almost opposite, amendments may be accepted). > > I am now looking for seconds for this proposal.
Yes, Branden (mis-spelling his name is living dangerously you know..) posted his amendment to your propsal here. ;) So now you can post yours to amend his. Aren't GRs fun? heh. > ====================================================================== > 4. The Developers by way of General Resolution or election [..] > - 5. Issue nontechnical policy documents and statements. > - These include documents describing the goals of the project, its > - relationship with other free software entities, and nontechnical > - policies such as the free software licence terms that Debian > - software must meet. > - They may also include position statements about issues of the day. > + 5. Issue, modify and withdraw nontechnical policy documents and > statements. > + These include documents describing the goals of the project, its > + relationship with other free software entities, and nontechnical > + policies such as the free software licence terms that Debian > + software must meet. > + They may also include position statements about issues of the day. > + 5.1 A special clause applies to the documents labelled as > + "Foundation Documents". These documents are those > + that are deemed to be critical to the core of the project, > + they tend to define what the project is, and lay the > + foundations of its structure. The developers may > + modify a foundation document provided they agree with a 3:1 > + majority. > > -- + 5.2 Initially, the list of foundation Documents consists > + of this document, The Debian Constitution, as well as the > + documents known as the Debian GNU/Linux Social Contract and the > + Debian Free Software Guidelines. The list of the documents > + that are deemed to be "Foundation Documents" may be changed > + by the developers provided they agree with a 3:1 majority. > 6. Together with the Project Leader and SPI, make decisions about > property held in trust for purposes related to Debian. (See > s.9.1.) > ====================================================================== For lack of a more simply worded amendment which accomplishes the same result, I second this. (I hope this will at least put a hold to the current attempts to pretend the constitution already includes this amendment without regard to the facets of reality until such time as a vote may be had. Somehow though, I suspect that would seem to make too much sense for Debian's own brand of quasi-political maneuvering to consider.. However, I digress.) -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforge.net/) 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 Lucas' Law: Good will always win, because evil hires the _stupid_ engineers.
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