Core Bylaws
- 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.