Re: Constitutional issues in the wake of Lenny

2009-03-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 08:49:51AM +, Matthew Johnson wrote: > Maybe I just see GRs as a last resort where we really really need a > definitive answer. Except they aren't; they're used any time six developers *think* we need a definitive answer, which is not the same thing. > Certainly after

Re: Overriding vs Amending vs 'Position statement' [Was: Re: Constitutional issues in the wake of Lenny]

2009-03-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Matthew Johnson wrote: > On Sat Mar 14 14:23, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > > I'm currently inclined to interprete it so that anything that > > seems to modify an interpretation will require an explicit change > > in some document. But I'm not sure it's in my power to refuse > > a

Re: Constitutional issues in the wake of Lenny

2009-03-15 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sat Mar 14 19:40, Russ Allbery wrote: > It makes an advisory project statement about the project interpretation of > the FD. DDs can choose to follow that interpretation or not as they > choose in their own work, but I would expect that people who didn't have a > strong opinion would tend to fo