[aur-general] [PATCH] tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure

[Loui Chang]

On Tue 07 Dec 2010 20:27 +0000, Peter Lewis wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 December 2010 19:02:59 Xyne wrote:
> > Peter Lewis wrote:
> > > This means that we cannot override (A) in the rest of the byelaws. I can
> > > imagine that we might want to create something requiring (say) a 2/3rds
> > 
> > > majority for some type of serious proposal at some point... How about:
> > /snip
> > 
> > > Just more thoughts, trying to spot loopholes, etc... :-)
> > 
> > The formatting got mangled. The format was
> > 
> > The proposal is foo if EITHER
> >   A) condition 1 OR
> >   B) condition 2
> > UNLESS some other condition
> > 
> > The indentation should make it clear that the EITHER and UNLESS wrap
> > the two choices. If you have a better idea of how to "insert parentheses"
> > then let me know.
> 
> Ah, thought so :-)
> 
> > Here's version 3 again without wrapping, hopefully:
> 
> Nice.
> 
> Yeah, I don't have any better suggestion really, and apart from my general 
> dislike for using whitespace to provide meaning (a la python) it's pretty 
> clear to me.

I do like to separate words by a space and paragraphs by a blank line.
It makes text easier to read and understand. ;)

It's nice to see this getting some development now, but I think we
should make a final revision soon, so this doesn't end up in endless
discussion. It doesn't need to be perfect. Making it better than it was
is good too.