On 08/05/14 at 22:56 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > [ CCing leader@ as I think its a rather important thing to discuss ] > > Hi, > > I object against adding new (and incomplete stuff) to a completely outdated > page. We have a lot of people sponsoring hardware, parts, or monkey for > hardware, including some who did never ever ask for a press release - or don't > even want to have one and maybe don't want to be mentioned at all. > > Adding bytemark to https://www.debian.org/misc/equipment_donations looks weird > to all those who sponsored stuff and who would like to be there, and maybe > even > weird to bytemark as they are listed with companies who donated a 20gb drive > or > similar things years ago (which was EXPENSIVE back at that time). > > That page needs to go away, or it needs to be kept uptodate by people who > actually know who sponsored what and who wants/should be mentioned (and thats > not the www team, sorry :)) - either the hardware donations people and/or the > Auditors. > > Actually I think we should not publish single donations on the web page at > all, > at least not in this form. If there was a press release its in the archive, > but > keeping track of all donations is a hard task and prone to problems and > errors, > and having a general "thank you" page is at least easier to maintain until we > found a proper way to keep track of > who-sponsored-what-and-wants-to-be-published-how.....
Hi, I agree with you that some improvement is needed about how we manage and advertise donations. There are plans to do that, but this will likely take time. I don't think that we should stop advertising donations in the meantime. Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140510074605.ga22...@xanadu.blop.info
