Re: Draft vote on constitutional issues

2009-05-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 01:12:27PM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: > On Sun May 10 04:13, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Hmm, I wouldn't second this in its present form because I don't see any > > reason to change the supermajority requirement for amending the constitution > > - I don't think anyone has e

Re: Draft vote on constitutional issues

2009-05-10 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sun May 10 18:34, Luk Claes wrote: > > 3. Option X overrides a foundation document, possibly temporarily (?) > > Not possible. You can only override a decision and amending a foundation > document is the previous option. What would you call the vote to ship non-free software in etch? Because t

Re: Draft vote on constitutional issues

2009-05-10 Thread Luk Claes
Matthew Johnson wrote: > On Sat May 02 00:32, Luk Claes wrote: >> PS: There is a reason why I send the mail about the definitions of the >> terms even if Kurt as well as you seem to ignore it. > > I posted a while back citing several types of vote option [0], with some > examlpes. I'm maybe not

Re: Draft vote on constitutional issues

2009-05-10 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sun May 10 04:13, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hmm, I wouldn't second this in its present form because I don't see any > reason to change the supermajority requirement for amending the constitution > - I don't think anyone has ever disputed the meaning of this requirement, > and it's been there since

Re: Draft vote on constitutional issues

2009-05-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 12:32:26AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: >> Option 1 - No Supermajority >> We do not believe that we should require anything more than a simple >> majority for any changes to the constitution or foundation documents. >>- replace Constitution 4.1 point 2 with "Amend this cons