On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 07:00:10PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > So, I really saw this purchase as purchasing "Debian infrastructure hosted > at a Developer's rather than in a datacenter".
Alright, that's well-reasoned. Something I'd throw in as a possible addition to this would be a formal agreement for the use of such hardware, including such elements as a goal for the work driving the purchase, a notion of milestones to be accomplished, and an idea of at what point the hardware should be delivered back to the project or, alternately, a notion of when the hardware will be considered to have achieved its purpose and can be henceforth considered owned by the developer. Put simply, your reasoning seems valid; I'd ideally like to see some agreement in place to try to ensure that the investment pays for itself. I don't suspect this sort of thing will be a frequent event, and it's entirely possible that the developers in question are well-enough known to project management that there's a defacto character reference at work as well, which would be reasonable. Just food for thought. -- Mason Loring Bliss (( If I have not seen as far as others, it is because ma...@blisses.org )) giants were standing on my shoulders. - Hal Abelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131226004744.gd13...@blisses.org
