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<p>These bylaws were approved by a vote of active committers on
August 28, 2000.</p>
<ul>
<li>Active committers have made a commit to the tree in the last 12
months.</li>
<li>Core consists of 9 elected active committers.</li>
<li>Core elections are held every 2 years, first time September 2000.</li>
<li>Core members and committers may be ejected by a 2/3 vote of core.</li>
<li>If the size of core falls below 7, an early election is held.</li>
<li>A petition of 1/3 of active committers can trigger an early
election.</li>
<li>All elections will be run as follows:
<ul>
<li>Core appoints and announces someone to run the election.</li>
<li>1 week to tally active committers wishing to run for core.</li>
<li>4 weeks for the actual vote</li>
<li>1 week to tally and post the results.</li>
<li>Each active committer may vote once in support of up to nine
nominees.</li>
<li>New core team becomes effective 1 week after the results are
posted.</li>
<li>Voting ties decided by unambiguously elected new core
members.</li>
</ul>
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<li>These rules can be changed by a 2/3 majority of committers if at
least 50% of active committers cast their vote.</li>
</ul>
<p>The last core election was held in September of 2000. The next core
election will be held in September of 2002.</p>
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