Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

2016-07-22 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Jul 22 2016, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Lionel Elie Mamane [2016-07-22 12:14 +0200]: >> Since Debian is an international project, with many (I expect a >> majority but am too lazy to check) of non-native English speakers, >> maybe taking a more

Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

2016-07-22 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 22 juillet 2016, 12.28:38 h CEST Jakub Wilk a écrit : > Luckily there's an awesome non-gendered and non-furnitured alternative: > > President Point is, the TC is constitutionally only about half-surrogating MIA DPLs and breaking ties. The non-constitutional part of the duty is

Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

2016-07-22 Thread Philip Hands
Lionel Elie Mamane writes: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 12:14:14PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > >> I'd rather you asked me for a signed agreement in triplicate before >> taking it out of the debian-private debian-developer-only archives to >> quote/post somewhere else. > >

Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

2016-07-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 12:14:14PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > Since Debian is an international project, with many (I expect a > majority but am too lazy to check) of non-native English speakers, > maybe taking a more unwieldy, but more clear route, would be better: > Chairperson? "Chair"

Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

2016-07-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 12:16:22PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > Except I'm not posting to debian-private, but to debian-vote. Oh, > silly me. I wonder if there will be sanctions for this egregious violation of our privacy and trust ;) -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am

Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

2016-07-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Lionel Elie Mamane [2016-07-22 12:14 +0200]: > Since Debian is an international project, with many (I expect a > majority but am too lazy to check) of non-native English speakers, > maybe taking a more unwieldy, but more clear route, would be better: > Chairperson?

Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

2016-07-22 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Lionel Elie Mamane , 2016-07-22, 12:14: Since Debian is an international project, with many (I expect a majority but am too lazy to check) of non-native English speakers, maybe taking a more unwieldy, but more clear route, would be better: Chairperson? Sounds clumsy.

Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

2016-07-22 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 12:14:14PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > I'd rather you asked me for a signed agreement in triplicate before > taking it out of the debian-private debian-developer-only archives to > quote/post somewhere else. Except I'm not posting to debian-private, but to

Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

2016-07-22 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:15:57AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 03:27:56PM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: >> - The Technical Committee and/or its Chairman; >> + The Technical Committee and/or its Chair; > A "Chairman" is a person. A "Chair" may be an object. > I