Bug#636783: TC constitutional issues

2014-02-28 Thread Andreas Barth
* Ian Jackson (ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk) [140228 12:15]: > Andreas Barth writes ("Bug#636783: TC constitutional issues"): > > * Ian Jackson (ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk) [140227 19:27]: > > > * 2:1 supermajority for TC overrides should be abolished (se

Bug#636783: TC constitutional issues

2014-02-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Barth writes ("Bug#636783: TC constitutional issues"): > * Ian Jackson (ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk) [140227 19:27]: > > * 2:1 supermajority for TC overrides should be abolished (seems > >we are probably agreed on this - speak now if not) > > I pre

Bug#636783: TC constitutional issues

2014-02-27 Thread Andreas Barth
* Ian Jackson (ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk) [140227 19:27]: > * 2:1 supermajority for TC overrides should be abolished (seems >we are probably agreed on this - speak now if not) I prefer if any decision to override the TC is statistically safe, i.e. not just one vote above 50%. For the in

Bug#636783: TC constitutional issues

2014-02-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Bdale Garbee writes: > Ian Jackson writes: >> * Possible minimum discussion period for TC resolutions. > I'd prefer this not change. The circumstances that led to my recent use > of no-wait CFVs was extremely unusual, and in the past we've used this > ability to quickly come to closure on iss

Bug#636783: TC constitutional issues

2014-02-27 Thread Bdale Garbee
Ian Jackson writes: > * 2:1 supermajority for TC overrides should be abolished (seems >we are probably agreed on this - speak now if not) I'm fine with this. > * FD threshold needs to be >= always, not >. Requirement to get >>> 4/8 voting X > FD was exploitable and bad news. There h

Bug#636783: TC constitutional issues

2014-02-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Briefly, mostly for my own notes: * 2:1 supermajority for TC overrides should be abolished (seems we are probably agreed on this - speak now if not) * FD threshold needs to be >= always, not >. Requirement to get >> 4/8 voting X > FD was exploitable and bad news. * Possible minimum dis