On Dec 16, 2009, at 00:49, Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote: > On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Simon Phipps wrote: > >> >> I'm clearly missing something here. The principle that anyone with >> Contributor status could get an Electorate vote ensures only true >> participants can engage over governance, and the principle that >> people who don't use their vote lose it and have to renew seems to >> cover quorum control without bureaucracy. I believed both >> principles were done and dusted. So where is the dissent arising? > > I believe the issue is it is not clear and in writing, at least that > was > what was discussed in today's meeting.
Current text[1] says: > The Electorate Group is responsible for community wide cross-group > governance. All community members who have substantially and > verifiability contributed to any OpenSolaris group are eligible for > membership in the Electorate. Qualification for membership in the > Electorate is for life, but actual membership needs to be renewed > every 2 (two) years, or if a member fails to vote in 2 (two) > consecutive elections. That seems within easy edit distance of the right words, so I'm still uncertain where the expansive debate has come from. Does someone substantially disagree with those principles and the text that embodies them? S. [1] http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:R90v0LDtdloJ:204.152.191.100/wiki/index.php/OGB_2008/010_OpenSolaris_Constitution_2009+http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OGB_2008/010_OpenSolaris_Constitution_2009&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a
