Kaiting Chen wrote:
I'm nitpicking here because we're pretty much at the final edit: Why do we have this redundant construct? "aur-general mailing list (aur-general)".
"aur-general" is an abbreviation of "the aur-general mailing list". I originally wrote something along the lines of "hereafter simply referred to as aur-general". It removes any ambiguity regarding what aur-general is.
Also I fixed one case of bylaws -> by-laws. And personally I prefer 'exceeds' to 'is greater than', and 'exceeds or equals' to 'is greater than or equal to' just for conciseness.
I prefer "greater|less than or equal to" in this case. I think they feel more natural.
Also I find the parts regarding the length of the discussion and voting period reading "UNLESS otherwise stated in a section of the by-laws pertaining to the proposal" rather awkward. I looked at the original bylaws and under the Standard Voting Procedure section says only "a certain period of time should be allotted to its discussion" without prescribing any length of time (it leaves the actual length of time to the sections describing each action). I would rather that this part read as the original by-laws, or that we standardize the length of the discussion period (make everything have a X day discussion period).
Also if we are putting stuff like five day discussion section, seven day voting period, 66% quorum in the Standard Voting Procedure section, are we going to remove the redundant information in the other sections? As it stands now every section says 66% quorum.
Considering that almost everything uses those defaults I think it makes more sense to keep them in one place and then simply override them as necessary elsewhere. Think of them as global variables. The rest of the by-laws should be updated to reflect the changes, both in form and substance. Loui Chang wrote:
I've removed that passage, changed "bylaws" to "by-laws", and changed "YES / NO" to "YES or NO".
I would prefer the non hyphenated spelling. *shrug*
Well, the English language disagrees with you and so does my spell-checker. :P