On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 08:35:48AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Matt Kraai <[email protected]> [2009.09.18.0624 +0200]: > > I appreciate their contributions to the project, but according to > > http://www.debian.org/partners/partners (that's a weird URL), > > "Donations to the Debian project do not qualify an organization > > for Partner status." Please see that page for more information on > > how these publishers could become partners. > > Who makes these rules and on what basis? They seem to completely > miss the point. Now we have Black Cat Networks providing "domain > registration services" and Linux Central offering CDs (I've never > seen one such CD at a conference) prominently listed with logos and > paragraphs, but two publishers that have donated over 20k in the > last four years do not get a mention? > > I also doubt that there's a CD vendor generating these amounts for > Debian. > > I appreciate that there are rules, but those rules may well be > inadequate for this situation. > > Where can we go from here?
I'd suggest contacting [email protected] with your concerns. If that isn't satisfactory, I'd fall back to the DPL. The web team isn't (IMO) the right group to be making these kinds of decisions. -- Matt Kraai http://ftbfs.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
