Kaiting Chen wrote: > I'm nitpicking here because we're pretty much at the final edit: Why do we > have this redundant construct? "aur-general mailing list (aur-general)".
"aur-general" is an abbreviation of "the aur-general mailing list". I originally wrote something along the lines of "hereafter simply referred to as aur-general". It removes any ambiguity regarding what aur-general is. > Also I fixed one case of bylaws -> by-laws. And personally I prefer > 'exceeds' to 'is greater than', and 'exceeds or equals' to 'is greater than > or equal to' just for conciseness. I prefer "greater|less than or equal to" in this case. I think they feel more natural. > Also I find the parts regarding the length of the discussion and voting > period reading "UNLESS otherwise stated in a section of the by-laws > pertaining to the proposal" rather awkward. I looked at the original bylaws > and under the Standard Voting Procedure section says only "a certain period > of time should be allotted to its discussion" without prescribing any length > of time (it leaves the actual length of time to the sections describing each > action). I would rather that this part read as the original by-laws, or that > we standardize the length of the discussion period (make everything have a X > day discussion period). > > Also if we are putting stuff like five day discussion section, seven day > voting period, 66% quorum in the Standard Voting Procedure section, are we > going to remove the redundant information in the other sections? As it > stands now every section says 66% quorum. Considering that almost everything uses those defaults I think it makes more sense to keep them in one place and then simply override them as necessary elsewhere. Think of them as global variables. The rest of the by-laws should be updated to reflect the changes, both in form and substance. Loui Chang wrote: > > I've removed that passage, changed "bylaws" to "by-laws", and changed "YES / > > NO" to "YES or NO". > > I would prefer the non hyphenated spelling. *shrug* Well, the English language disagrees with you and so does my spell-checker. :P