On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:09:04AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > 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. >
If a group of developers started filibustering a GR over and over again, the DAMs would be well within their rights to pull the accounts of the people in question. A denial of service attack is grounds for exclusion and DMUP states: "Don't by any ... reckless ... act interfere with the work of another developer ...". Regards, Pasc -- Pascal Hakim +61 403 411 672 Do Not Bend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]