Re: Changes to the GNOME Foundation Bylaws from 2002

[Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress gmail com>]

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 03:07:46AM +0200, Tobias Mueller wrote:
>> Dear Foundation,
>>
>> I propose to change the current bylaws to the document attached.
>
>   Not saying what the change is, why you want it changed and
> providing some kind of diff is very very surprizing. It exactly
> sounds like you don't want that change to be discussed in any way.


Diff attached to:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683980

as discussed on this list two weeks ago.  I see no indications that
there has been any attempt to conceal this information, your implied
accusation is ill-founded.

>   So NACK on principle, I'm probably not a foundation member anymore
> but I was part of the group who designed the bylaws and I don't
> like your way to proceed frankly.

Posting and announcing a diff on bugzilla, waiting about two weeks for
comment (only a few on the ticket), then asking to move forward.  I am
not sure I see the procedural issue, what specifically should have
been done differently?  I'm new here, so I am curious.

cjl