On 05/06/2017 03:54 AM, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 10:40:10PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> On Fri, 2017-05-05 at 16:54 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>> On 05/02/2017 02:35 AM, Paul Wise wrote: >>>> With my DSA hat on, we don't like being guinea pigs for development >>>> boards and pre-release hardware. This kind of hardware tends to be >>>> unreliable and require too much hand-holding. That said, we definitely >>>> welcome hardware sponsorship and partners. >>> >>> Absolutely. However, you may know that commercial distros are making >>> their certification program a non-free (as in: you must pay your beer) >>> thing. I do believe it'd be a fair way to get free (as in free beer) >>> hardware for the DSA team. It's up to us to define the terms. >> >> Free as in free kittens? > > I'm not interested in hardware as payment for certification. It's too open to > abuse. Charge a fee for certification testing; use the funds to buy hardware.
If we made such a decision, I'd be very supportive of it. We could make it in a "soft" way, ie tell that we accept some kind of (re-occurring?) sponsorship, and providing a range of acceptable payment. We could make such payment not completely mandatory, but strongly recommended. I'm convinced that, with proper wording (meaning someone *else* than me would attempt it, as I don't think I'd be the best person to write such thing), it would work, and help the project to find more sponsors. Your thoughts? Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
