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+   ----- GENERAL RESOLUTION STARTS -----
+
+   Constitutional Amendment: Permit TC to hold informal private conversations
+
+   On a number of occasions recently, enquirers have emailed TC
+   members' personal addreses to informally seek members' views.  This
+   has worked well; however it is not clear that Constitution permits
+   it.  This situation should be regularised.
+
+   On occasion the TC has been asked to decide on maintainership of
+   packages.  It is very difficult to hold the necessary discussions,
+   which inevitably involve discussion of personalities, in public.
+
+   At the moment the TC is unable to take on a mediation role, since
+   mediation necessarily involves each party to a dispute conversing
+   privately with the mediator.  The TC should be able to mediate if
+   the TC, and parties to a dispute, wish it to do so.
+
+   Actual decisionmaking must still place in public of course.
+
+   Therefore, amend the Debian Constitution 6.3 as follows (wdiff -i):
+
+     3. Public [-discussion and-] decision-making.
+
+       [-Discussion,-]
+       Draft resolutions and amendments, and votes by members of the
+       committee, are made public on the Technical Committee public
+       discussion list. There is no separate secretary for the
+       Committee.
+
+        [+<cite>The Technical Committee should limit private
+        discussions to situations where holding the conversation in
+        public would be infeasible or counterproductive.</cite>+]
+
+   ----- GENERAL RESOLUTION ENDS -----