Hi Hector, On 14/03/14 at 13:25 +0100, Hector Oron wrote: > a. Debian hardware infrastructure > 0. What do you think of Debian teams owning their own > infrastructure (hardware)?
First, generally, I think that one big risk for Debian is fragmentation into smaller, team-sized sub-projects. That really scares me. One area where this is already happening is processes for packaging with Git: we so far failed to converge into a single (set of) recommended process(es), and each team tends to implement its own variation. But then, I'm not sure I understand the question. When a Trusted Organization buys hardware on behalf of Debian, that TO becomes the owner of this hardware, not a Debian team (even DSA). For Debian teams to own hardware, they would need an official legal identity. (I'm not sure I understood your question correctly, feel free to ask again if I didn't) > 1. If Debian team gets hardware resources from external > parties/sponsors in monetary form, would you be willing to spend that > money buying hardware for that team, or re-use existing hardware which > is already part of Debian assets and save that money for something > else? Generally, we should of course seek to use donations we receive in an optimal way. That most likely includes factoring the infrastructure needs with our existing infrastructure. However, if a Debian team does target-specific fundraising on behalf of Debian, and this results in donations to Debian, we have a moral responsibility (to our donors) to use that donation for the purpose that it was intended for. I would say that here, the problem would be failing to engage with DSA before doing fundraising for infrastructure. > b. Debian money > 0. If Debian had an excess of cash, which topics do you think > are more important to spend that money for the overall project > benefit? That's a difficult question. By definition, if Debian had an excess of cash, it would already mean that we have already explored all useful ways to make use of that money :-) Again, I think that we have a responsibility towards our donors to use donations a a way compatible with what they expect from Debian. If we can't think of a useful way to do that, we should probably just save it for later. Lucas
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