On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 6:33 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > If Debian had a wishlist, we could let partners join by donating > hardware on this list — until the need is higher and we cannot wait > and have to buy the hardware ourselves, so this would need to be > actively managed.
We have a hardware wishlist but there is nothing on it yet and no-one replied to my calls for adding things to it (on IRC, d-d-a). https://wiki.debian.org/Hardware/Wanted https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/03/msg00004.html The previous hardware wishlist became obsolete because it was writeable only by the web team. There is also the DSA wishlist but half of it is obsolete since zack created sources.d.n. https://dsa.debian.org/hardware-wishlist/ Looking at my hardware-donations@d.o archive, we've been offered mostly hardware that we can't use for one reason or another; out of warranty, too slow/ancient, donor didn't follow-up with suggestion to contact porters or we had no use for them. So far only one of eight has been accepted and that was from the manufacturer and was very new hardware. IIRC, the partners program was meant for continuous support every year like supplying machines as-needed for port X rather than one-off donations. Re financial donations, I'd personally like to see more focus on something like having 20k or more individuals donating $10 a year and most of them listed on contributors.d.o, as opposed to turning Debian into more of an advertising organisation, which seems to be the end of the spectrum we are headed towards. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6Hoa2QBavjbZcRURfca=+wk-7e0ageeitjlhesj6l-...@mail.gmail.com