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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] call for agenda items -- council meeting 2021-05-09
Date: Mon, 03 May 2021 08:59:35
Message-Id: 00d9f2b305889294210bb01748d2045a0cd603f0.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] call for agenda items -- council meeting 2021-05-09 by William Hubbs
1 On Sun, 2021-05-02 at 22:22 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 09:07:11PM +0200, Thomas Deutschmann wrote:
3 > > Hi,
4 > >
5 > > On 2021-05-01 17:14, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
6 > > > There's rumors going around that Agostino's tinderbox basically
7 > > > already burned through our entire 2021 AWS Open Source credit budget
8 > > > and has overdrawn it significantly.
9 > > >
10 > > > Independent of whether this rumor is true or not, I would like to
11 > > > discuss
12 > > > * how we can avoid such a situation in the future,
13 > > > * and how we can fairly handle the distribution of limited infra
14 > > > resources that may end up costing us money
15 > >
16 > > Is this really a topic for council?
17 > >
18 > > Isn't foundation an independent body and if someone requests funding
19 > > from foundation and will get it approved...
20 > >
21 > > Or in other words: Can council veto against funding requests the
22 > > foundation received and wants to approve?
23 >
24 > The way I see it is, if the council wants funding for something they
25 > can request it from the foundation, but I don't think they can direct
26 > the foundation not to fund something someone else requests.
27 >
28 > Also, given Antarus' response in the thread, I'm not sure there is
29 > anything for council to discuss.
30 >
31
32 Does 'being not sure' authorize you to arbitrarily decide to skip agenda
33 items from the community?
34
35 --
36 Best regards,
37 Michał Górny

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