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Mike Doty wrote: [Sat May 14 2005, 10:26:19AM CDT] |
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> The reason the AMD donation wasn't mentioned is because we didn't know |
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> AMD was going to send us all this equipment(we just received it on |
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> tuesday at OSL) So now we need to provide 3 SSI PSU's and 3 EATX cases. |
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> Like I said, the amd64 team has raised about 350 dollars, but this isn't |
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> enough to acquire everything we need(hopefully I can get 2 boxes online |
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> with that) I feel if we had 150-200 more then we could get all 3 boxes |
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> online, and keep nemo online. This will provide great benefit come |
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> release time, as most of the images would be built on amd64's hardware, |
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> if we had enough power. I'd still appreciate kurts donation, but it is |
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> no longer as important as it was before the AMD donation. |
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Cool. Excellent work on your part, by the way. |
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> I'd be more than happy to send an updated request for funding if that |
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> would help. |
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It wouldn't hurt. I, personally, would like to have something in |
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writing that states pretty much what you said in your e-mail (including |
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that hardware has already been donated) but that also adds (a) what the |
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new hardware will be used for, (b) where the new hardware will be |
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housed, (c) who will own it (I assume that Gentoo would, but it should |
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be in writing), and (c) who will be able to access it (not a list of |
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names, but something like "amd64 and security devs who request access"). |
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Incidentally, the major criticism about the original budget request |
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(which wasn't enough to derail things, it was just a criticism) was that |
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the proposal stated that the upgraded machine would be used for release |
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building, but it didn't really justify that the requested funds would |
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solve that problem. This case is different, of course, because now we |
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have donated equipment from AMD. |
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In any event, you have a "yay" vote on my part for the $200. |
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-g2boojum- |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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