Felix Lechner <felix.lech...@lease-up.com> writes: > On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 3:53 PM Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote:
>> makes it very easy to extend it .... This will probably happen for all >> but the most urgent and uncontroversial GRs. > Didn't we just see the opposite? I don't understand the question. This statement is in the context of Wouter's system for extending the discussion period via a proposal and sponsors. That system does not currently exist, and therefore this could not have happened or not happened in any previous GR. > In the most recent referendum, the decisive argument for shortening was > the existence of hardened fronts rather than a lack of controversy. Sam > suspected that people had made up their minds. [1] In the most recent referendum, the DPL shortened the discussion period, which the current constitution gives the DPL the power to do. The proposal to which you're responding is to drop that provision entirely in favor of Wouter's system for deciding on extensions of the discussion period. That modification of Wouter's system does not have any mechanism for *shortening* the discussion period (instead, it starts at one week and can only be lengthened), so no argument for shortening would even be relevant in that system. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
