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These bylaws were approved by a vote of active committers on
August 28, 2000.
- Active committers have made a commit to the tree in the last 12
months.
- Core consists of 9 elected active committers.
- Core elections are held every 2 years, first time September 2000.
- Core members and committers may be ejected by a 2/3 vote of core.
- If the size of core falls below 7, an early election is held.
- A petition of 1/3 of active committers can trigger an early
election.
- All elections will be run as follows:
- Core appoints and announces someone to run the election.
- 1 week to tally active committers wishing to run for core.
- 4 weeks for the actual vote
- 1 week to tally and post the results.
- Each active committer may vote once in support of up to nine
nominees.
- New core team becomes effective 1 week after the results are
posted.
- Voting ties decided by unambiguously elected new core
members.
- These rules can be changed by a 2/3 majority of committers if at
least 50% of active committers cast their vote.
+Additional Information
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The last core election was held in September of 2000. The next core
- election will be held in September of 2002.
+ election is scheduled for September of 2002.
+
+Core Interpretations of the Bylaws
+
+ Core will issue interpretations of the bylaws from time to time
+ as necessary to clarify areas that might be ambiguous in the
+ bylaws as enacted to ensure the smooth operation of the project.
+
+ - 20020503 The next election is always scheduled for two
+ years after the previous election. This means that early elections
+ reset the date of the succeeding election such that it will
+ occur two years following the early election.
+
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