Re: Secret Ballots: Handling Disagreement with the Secretary

2022-01-29 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Jean-Philippe" == Jean-Philippe MENGUAL writes: Jean-Philippe> secret vote does not make part of them, if I remember Jean-Philippe> correctly the constitution and the debate, so the Jean-Philippe> debate was about intrepreting the text about this. The specific question that ros

Re: Secret Ballots: Handling Disagreement with the Secretary

2022-01-29 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 29 Jan 2022, Sam Hartman wrote: > So, to be specific, I propose to add a paragraph 8 to section 4.1 > (powers of the developers): > > 8. Override a decision of the secretary. Overriding the secretary's >determination of the majority required for a ballot option or >over

Re: Secret Ballots: Handling Disagreement with the Secretary

2022-01-29 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Hi, Personally I am not sure that the secretary needs a challenging process, given how he/she/they is chosen and how the general vote process works. However, when he/she/they needs to take a decision, it is because the constitution enables him/her/them to do it, for defined situations. The qu

Re: Secret Ballots: Handling Disagreement with the Secretary

2022-01-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Sam Hartman writes: > So, to be specific, I propose to add a paragraph 8 to section 4.1 > (powers of the developers): > 8. Override a decision of the secretary. Overriding the secretary's >determination of the majority required for a ballot option or >overriding the determina

Secret Ballots: Handling Disagreement with the Secretary

2022-01-29 Thread Sam Hartman
Hi, everyone. Now that we have concluded deciding our GR procedure, I'd like to come back to the question of secret ballots that we decided to defer from the last round. As a reminder, that discussion started at https://lists.debian.org/tslilx2fuo8@suchdamage.org In <87a6ic6wl1@arioch.