Re: Draft vote on constitutional issues

2009-05-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 12:32:26AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Option 1 - No Supermajority We do not believe that we should require anything more than a simple majority for any changes to the constitution or foundation documents. - replace Constitution 4.1 point 2 with Amend this constitution

Re: Draft vote on constitutional issues

2009-05-10 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sun May 10 04:13, Steve Langasek wrote: Hmm, I wouldn't second this in its present form because I don't see any reason to change the supermajority requirement for amending the constitution - I don't think anyone has ever disputed the meaning of this requirement, and it's been there since

Re: Draft vote on constitutional issues

2009-05-10 Thread Luk Claes
Matthew Johnson wrote: On Sat May 02 00:32, Luk Claes wrote: PS: There is a reason why I send the mail about the definitions of the terms even if Kurt as well as you seem to ignore it. I posted a while back citing several types of vote option [0], with some examlpes. I'm maybe not using

Re: Overriding vs Amending vs Position statement

2009-05-10 Thread Luk Claes
Matthew Johnson wrote: On Sat May 02 00:52, Luk Claes wrote: It would be a clear indication that the foundation document should get an update or that the postition statement should get dropped again. I think Manoj's point is that if voting some option X (a position statement in conflict

Re: Draft vote on constitutional issues

2009-05-10 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sun May 10 18:34, Luk Claes wrote: 3. Option X overrides a foundation document, possibly temporarily (?) Not possible. You can only override a decision and amending a foundation document is the previous option. What would you call the vote to ship non-free software in etch? Because that

Re: Draft vote on constitutional issues

2009-05-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 01:12:27PM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: On Sun May 10 04:13, Steve Langasek wrote: Hmm, I wouldn't second this in its present form because I don't see any reason to change the supermajority requirement for amending the constitution - I don't think anyone has ever