Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

[William L. Thomson Jr.]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 07:44:00 -0700
Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
>
> In general I would just comment that if anything we get too few
> requests for spending money and not too many.

Not surprising, though I had ideas on lots of spending, events, travel
reimbursement, developer systems, etc.

> I don't think the  Foundation would be able to just go buying PCs for
> every dev on request, but for one-offs like these they might chip in.

More like the Foundation/Gentoo should have some plan and/or budget as
to how to put the funds to use etc. Which gives others reasons to
donate more when they can see where the funds are being used, the
benefit etc.

Example
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Budget2016.pdf

> One thing that should be considered in these sorts of requests is who
> owns the hardware and where it will be kept and what kind of access
> other devs on the relevant teams would have.  I think there ought to
> be a difference between how we treat hardware that is owned by the
> Foundation and always available to devs, vs something that somebody
> intends to use for Gentoo work right now, but where ownership resides
> with the individual and there is no obligation to give the hardware to
> somebody else if they stop contributing.  To the extent that the costs
> are more nominal the Foundation should probably exercise more leeway.

In an ideal sense, equipment like this would go to something like OSU
OSL or some other hosting provider. Though there is the cost of
bandwidth, power, and man power to service hardware issues. Not to
mention rack, provision, etc.

Donate gear to Gentoo to be used/accessed by any dev, and maybe some
others. I think Gentoo should have more internal resources available
for developers to use. Then again I had lots of ideas for Gentoo....

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.