Bugzilla – Bug 555
Process for Constitutional Amendment is insufficient in Article IX
Last modified: 2008-04-21 17:31:53 UTC
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The process in Article IX provides insufficient guidance for handling a situation where a number of amendments are being devised for the Constitution. I propose that amendments shall only be sent to the membership for voting is they have passed the Majority voting requirement in article 8.4. I also propose that amendments only be allowed during the Annual or Special Meeting. Article IX should be amended to read: "This Constitution and its bylaws may be altered, amended, added to, or repealed by an affirmative vote of a majority of the Members of record during Annual and Special meetings as defined in 5.2 and 5.3, provided that the proposed deletions and additions, when applied to the Constitution, will result in a new Constitution that remains in complete compliance with the OpenSolaris Charter. The complete text of the proposed deletions and additions must: * be approved within an active OpenSolaris Community using the Majority voting rule in article 8.4 prior to being delivered to the general membership for adoption. * be delivered in a notice by electronic mail to the Members no less than ten (10) days prior to any vote on said deletions and additions. " I propose this amendment be placed before the membership in advance of the 2008 OGB elections and General Meeting.
As of now, we're actively discussing amendments on #opensolaris-meeting - please come and join in the discussion.
The following text was sent to core-contrib-discuss@opensolaris.org at 02:08 GMT on Febrary 29 2008 for inclusion in the General MEeting: "This Constitution and its bylaws may be altered, amended, added to, or repealed by an affirmative vote of a majority of the Members of record during Annual and Special meetings as defined in 5.2 and 5.3, provided that the proposed deletions and additions, when applied to the Constitution, will result in a new Constitution that remains in complete compliance with the OpenSolaris Charter. The complete text of the proposed deletions and additions must: * be approved within an OpenSolaris Community Group using the Majority voting rule in article 8.4 prior to being delivered to the full Membership for adoption. * be delivered in a notice by electronic mail to the Members no less than ten (10) days prior to any vote on said deletions and additions. "
This amendment was adopted in the Annual Meeting vote in March 2008.
This made it back into the constitution - closing.