Hi, Due to a loop hole in the constitution, any group of 6 Debian developers can delay any general resolution indefinitely by putting up their own amendment, and every 6 days, making substantiative changes in their amendment (they can just rotate between a small number of very different proposals).
Previously, I had stated that I, in my role as secretary, would set an deadline for proposals two weeks in the future, and any proposals past the deadline would go no a separate ballot, in order to break the filibuster, even though the constitution did not specifically permit that. I realize now that that would be a an egregious abuse of the powers of the secretary, censorship, and grievously wrong procedure. I am no longer willing to step in and break filibusters. The project should decide how it wants to handle filibustering, if it feels like doing anything about it, of course. But now, any GR has a veto contingent of only 6 developers. manoj -- Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality... :-) --Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C