Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16 2008, Matthew Woodcraft wrote: > >> Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: >>> If there were something in the constitution detailing decision-making >>> process around foundation documents and their interpretation, it would >>> have made this whole conflict easier to resolve. But so far as I can >>> tell, there isn't, apart from application to voting specifically. >> There isn't anything in the constitution about the application of >> foundation documents to voting either, other than the rule about >> superseding them. > > >> If the proposer of vote/2003/vote_0003 had intended it to give the >> Secretary power to impose supermajority requirements on the grounds >> that an option conflicts with a foundation document, one would have >> expected him to have said so explicitly. > > So, in your opinion, which decision making entity is empowered > by the constitution to make decisions about super majority > requirements? What are the constraints on their ability to decide on > this? What should they be looking at, apart from the constitution, to > decide whether a super majority rule should apply?
I would think the explicit overriding or removal of parts of foundation documents aka changing them as I read it in the constitution (but apparently my interpretation differs from yours). Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
