Hi Jaroslav, On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 7:37 PM, Jaroslav Tulach <[email protected]> wrote: > ...it would be way easier if the donation documents used firm language > without any conditionals...
Yes. It looks like the Incubator will not accept software grants with conditionals going forward, as they complicate things unnecessarily. > ...When you get some amount of money, do you count them or do you trust the > other > person to give you the right amount?... In general I trust people. But when it's a big organization on the other side I'm much more cautious. People leave companies, new people come in and they sometimes have different ideas and might be missing some background on how to interpret things that happened in the past. It's the same on our side - five years down the line the NetBeans PMC might be different people, and if for some reason they need to go back to what's happening now the history needs to be documented. That's why I insist on this donation and how it is handled being clean from a formal point of view - which would have been easier without conditionals in the grant, but that's where we are now. It is *not* a lack of trust in the people who are involved in this now - it is with a view on the future where different people might be involved on both sides. As you mention, a semi-automatic check of the donated files is possible. Hope this clarifies my point of view. I'm just one mentor here, if others have different opinions they are welcome. -Bertrand
