Hi Thomas, On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 03:07:39PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Though, it is my understanding that those who are capable of doing the > work are too busy. So what is your plan? Is using Debian money for > sponsoring that work one of the things you would do? If yes, up to what > amount would you accept to spend? (note: I think it would be money > wisely spent)
I'm very wary of using Debian money directly to pay people for development. No matter what your view on if this is good expenditure, I think it's been shown that this is highly divisive to the project. We're a community of volunteers, and the proposals to use money in this way is well documented, so I won't repeat them here. [0] For hardware though, I think that this would indeed be legitimate expenditure - we should ensure that it's not a technical factor that's blocking the deployment of this. However, I think that there's a wider question which can be asked: is wanna-build/britney/dak the best option for the project? SteamOS for example uses OBS [1] to completely rebuild Debian. I'm not suggesting we immediately dump our tools, but it's certainly an option we should keep open in any evaluation. [0] For those who don't remember, search for DUNC tank on your favourite search engine. [1] http://openbuildservice.org/ --
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