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On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 07:15:44PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Sun, 2019-07-14 at 10:59 -0400, Aaron Bauman wrote: |
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> > On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 11:25:55PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > > On Sat, 2019-07-13 at 22:15 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: |
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> > <snip> |
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> > |
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> > > > Maybe an example will help? |
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> > > > What group or individual within Gentoo will determine if directing |
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> > > > the umbrella to buy a Power9 system for the distro is a good idea |
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> > > > or not. |
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> > > |
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> > > The Council, obviously. As it should be doing it today, except by some |
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> > > weird mistake Foundation decides to skip it entirely and authorize |
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> > > technical decisions on its own. |
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> > > |
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> > What? |
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> > Buying an asset requires monies which requires some legal body with |
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> > representatives to purchase said item. Roy's example above was not a "technical" |
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> > decision. |
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> > Entertaining the response though, you *could* break this into (2) separate |
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> > authorizations... |
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> > 1. Project $x requests a Power9 machine from council |
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> > 2. the council says/agrees we need a Power9 machine to carry out some technical |
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> > function submitted for from project $x |
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> > 3. They authorize said procurement of a Power9 machine |
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> > 4. The "purse holder" (current Foundation or umbrella) goes and buys said Power9 |
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> > machine. |
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> > That is really not neccasary though. No different then how the Foundation just |
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> > purchases the new sparc asset. |
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> That's exactly the model I would like to pursue. For each purchase |
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> request, Council authorizes the purpose, while Trustees authorize |
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> the finances. |
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> -- |
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> Best regards, |
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> Michał Górny |
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I believe that is a highly reasonable and functional model. |
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Cheers, |
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Aaron |