Ian Jackson - Debian Project Leader wrote: > Please see > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/debian-organisation-0.7.html > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/debian-organisation-formal.html > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/debian-organisation.html > for the latest draft constitution.
All three looked the same to me; I hope they were :-) I had trouble understanding the second paragraph of section 1: This document describes the organisational structure for formal decisionmaking in the Project. It does not describe the goals of the Project or how it achieves them, or contain any specific nontechnical policies not directly related to the decisionmaking process. There were too many negations in that last sentence. I suggest to drop the words "specific nontechnical" (it doesn't contain any technical policies either, so that's ok), and replace "not directly related" with "other than those directly related". I also have a more substantive comment. The Constitution seems to contain no provision for a developer to leave the Project, other than by expulsion. I think that s.3.2 should state that a developer may leave the Project at any time, by stating so publicly or by informing the Project Secretary (who will presumably make a public statement). I assumed that the Project Secretary would keep the authoritative list of Debian developers, but s.7.1 makes no mention of that. Perhaps it should? Determining the current set of developers is a non-trivial task. In addition, I am still not sure about the role of SPI. s.9.2 says "SPI have made the following undertakings" and then gives a list. Is this currently true? I think it should be true before a vote is called, at least. The introduction to s.9 also says "Debian's developers are currently members of SPI by virtue of their status as developers". Is this true? It would seem to depend on SPI's charter, not Debian's, and we don't have that. Richard Braakman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]