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On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> wrote: |
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> Argument about saving Gentoo Foundation financial resources by |
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> using hardware for CI for free is heard and taken. This is a |
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> serious one and I can't argue here. But frankly it looks like to me |
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> that we are just selling our freedom, slowly, bit by bit. |
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Well, then buy it back! I'm sure everybody would prefer to use |
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something which is FOSS. Somebody just has to build it. |
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The only thing the Council/Trustees/etc can do is say "no, you're not |
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allowed to build that." The Trustees do have some money, but not |
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really all that much if you want to hire somebody to build something. |
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So, we have to rely on somebody stepping up and doing the work. |
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For us to actually say "no, I'd prefer that you did nothing at all |
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rather than working on what you're working on right now" is a pretty |
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big step to take. We'll take it over something serious, but you can |
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imagine that we're going to be reluctant to take it over where an |
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overlay gets hosted, or over an optional CI layer, and so on. |
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I fully accept that this isn't entirely without risk. |
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Rich |