Sam Hartman <hartm...@debian.org> writes: > So, to be specific, I propose to add a paragraph 8 to section 4.1 > (powers of the developers):
> 8. Override a decision of the secretary. Overriding the secretary's > determination of the majority required for a ballot option or > overriding the determination of the outcome of a vote requires that > the developers agree by a 3:1 majority. The secretary's > determination of whether a 3:1 majority is required to override > the project secretary is not itself subject to override. > I'd appreciate comments on this proposal and on the general issue. > Assuming the discussion resolves reasonably quickly, I propose to send > out a new version of the secret ballot proposal including a fix to this > issue in around a week. The question this raises for me is who runs the vote to decide whether to override the Project Secretary? I would completely trust Kurt to run that vote, but in the general case the Project Secretary running a vote on whether to override the Project Secretary is a clear conflict of interest. We could require that such a vote be done by public ballot regardless of any secret ballot mechanism for other votes, which gives us some built-in defense against any problems, but it still makes me a little bit leery to set up a situation where someone is running a vote about overriding a decision that they may feel strongly about. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
