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On Wednesday 25 October 2006 03:27, Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> As such, as a point of principle, should the council be able to |
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> change/override/replace the rules in GLEP 39 w/out putting it to a |
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> vote of all Gentoo developers? |
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sort of like the president rewriting the rules that control his own power ... |
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do we treat GLEP 39 as the constitution and all changes require wider |
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developer base approval while all other GLEPs are laws which can be amended ? |
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> (As a second principle, if GLEP 39 is amended, wouldn't it be better |
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> to publish a new GLEP to superceed it, rather than revise the existing |
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> GLEP?) |
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i think in general it depends on the nature of the change and how drastic it |
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is of the original ... but that can be a bit of a slippery slope i guess (how |
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do you measure the degree of a change ?) |
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-mike |
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