Richard Braakman writes ("Re: Constitution - formal proposal (v0.7)
(comments)"):
...
> All three looked the same to me; I hope they were :-)
Yes; I should make this clearer next time.
> 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".
You're right.
> 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've added a general statement that you can leave the project or
resign from a post by public announcement.
> 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.
Yes, also fixed.
> 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.
Yes, I'll try to arrange for it to be true. If not then we'll have to
vote on "seeking the following undertakings" or some such.
> 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.
I have a paper copy, which I have yet to read.
Has anyone else any more comments ? If not I'll post a 0.8 with these
few minor changes. In the meantime, -0.7.1 has the current draft.
Ian.
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