or maybe, it's possible to reword option E, because my only problem
is with the last sentence which reads
"We will publish these images as official Debian media, replacing
the current media sets that do not include non-free firmware packages."
and which I'd rather like to read
"We will publish these images as official Debian media, in addition to
the current media sets that do not include non-free firmware packages."
(so s#replacing#in addition to# which I'm not sure is worth another
option on the ballot. maybe it is.)
If we happen to fall down this leg of the Trousers of Time, I would be inclined to explicitly reinstate option A in any SC ballot options that
would make A consistent with the SC as revised.
In practice, I think this specific outcome is unlikely in that I expect
that if people were willing to change the SC to be consistent with option
A, they'd just vote my option E. The most likely case where option A
would win but not option E is if option E failed to get a 3:1 majority and then option A was the favorite among the remaining options, but in that
case the SC amendment in the third step would presumably also fail to
gather a 3:1 majority.
Hi all,
Moving this into a separate thread from all the discussion for a bit more visibility.
Thank you for all the discussion over the past couple of days about my proposal and about possible rewordings to point 5 of the Social Contract.
The short summary is that, after considering that feedback, I'm going to stick with the current wording for proposal E for this vote.
I see a clear desire to reword point 5 of the Social Contract to get rid
of some obsolete language and possibly tighten and clarify it, but I also think it's somewhat orthogonal to the current GR. Therefore, I'm going to stick, for this GR, with making what I think is the minimal change
required to make proposal A clearly consistent with the Social Contract,
and then will look at starting a separate GR to update SC point 5 based on the outcome of that vote.
(...)
Now, my thinking wandered off to the following timeline:
almost-now o Voting is open with the A,B,C,D,E option set.
| We know the Secretary has warned that some options
| winning might trigger his obligation to mark the
| vote as invalid.
|
weeks-from- o Vote concludes. Option A wins. The Secretary rules
now | the vote invalid.
|
few-months- o GR for changing SC#5 is called, discussed, voted. future | There is no longer a SC conflict between
| 2022/vote_003 and SC#5.
|
What would follow from here? Would the SC change automatically enable
the Secretary to reinstate the winning option A for 2022/vote_003? Or
are such rulings made (as would make sense!) for the "current
reality"? Would running the same vote again be in place?
Sorry for the hypothesizing, but I think it's important to udnerstand
where we are and where would this lead us to.
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