On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 03:42:39PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > And what? If someone tries to bring through a GR stating that > > MS office warez can be distributed in main since it meets the DFSG, > > one might rule that as frivolous and a waste of time. > > I'm not convinced the constitution gives the secretary the power to make > such a ruling. There are no provisions in the constitution for the Project > Secretary to dismiss a GR -- *even* a GR stating that the Debian Project > holds the value of pi to be 3 -- so long as the GR has the requisite number > of seconds.
I suspect the Secretary could effectively do so by declining to take the vote under Section 2.1.1 ("[n]othing in this constitution imposes an obligation on anyone to do work for the Project.") It seems then that the secretary has no obligation to actually perform 4.2.3 or 7.1.1. > > In the present case, I understand that the proposed ballot option is > ambiguous wrt whether it constitutes an implicit amendment to the foundation > docs, and that in the absence of clarification (in the form of a re-worded > proposal) on the part of the proposer, it is the project secretary's > prerogative to specify a supermajority requirement. I think that under 7.1.3, it'd be the Secretary's job/power to determine supermajority requirement regardless of what the proposed ballot option says. If 6 developers (K=5 currently, I think) can decide that the supermajority requirements to not apply to a ballot option, then the supermajority requirements are rather worthless. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]