On 6/3/20 11:38 PM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: > Le 03/06/2020 à 10:50, Bastian Blank a écrit : >> Hi >> >> On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 10:40:05AM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: >>> We might need to explain this to Jonathan: Two or three years back the >>> Debian Cloud team agreed on an internal policy during a face-to-face in >>> Seattle that delegates should neither be employees of the cloud >>> providers nor should there be a direct work contract with one of them. >> >> It even got added to the delegation itself: >> >> | The Debian Cloud Delegates shall meet the following criteria: >> | - must not work for or otherwise have a business relationship with >> | a cloud provider; >> | - must maintain an arms-length relationship with cloud providers >> | throughout the duration of their delegation; and >> | - must be a Debian Developer. > > Thanks for bringing the exact text. > > IMHO, this requirement makes more difficult to find as someone from the > people, as AFAIK many of us are working in a way for a cloud provider, > or a partner. > > What are we actually afraid of here ? As far as the build process of the > images is in the open.
We're afraid of conflict of interest. There's been multiple times where we saw it could happen, and by having the delegates not involved with a provider, we're hoping to reduce that risk. > We have Debian Developpers working for Ubuntu, Redhat, Prodigy, Kali in > the past and present, and it mostly goes fine. And? I don't see how this relates to the discussion. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
