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.

The last core election was held in September of 2000. The next core election will be held in September of 2002.