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On Sat, 2019-07-13 at 13:18 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: |
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> On 2019.07.13 13:12, Roy Bamford wrote: |
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> > Team, |
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> > This is a meta topic to collect Questions For Gentoo Foundation |
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> > Trustee Candidates together. |
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> We have several candidates with a declared platform of dissolving |
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> the Gentoo foundation. |
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This is already answered in my Manifesto [1] but I'll repeat here for |
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completeness. |
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> 1. Will all candidates make their position on the future of the Foundation |
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> clear. |
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I'm for dissolving the Foundation in favor of professional umbrella if |
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such an opportunity arises (unless the offer is very bad). If this |
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turns out not to be possible, I believe we should aim towards |
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maintaining good standing forward, look for a ways to reduce the costs |
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of maintaining it and look for the possibility of making donations tax- |
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deducible (if we are really able of supporting that). |
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> 2. Will all candidates explain the reasoning supporting their position |
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> on their future plans for the existence (or otherwise) of the Foundation. |
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The reasoning is simple. We haven't been able to maintain Foundation |
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in really good standing *for years*. Even if we are closing to |
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*finally* fix things, it mostly relies on a few people putting a lot of |
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work, and this means low bus factor. There's no way to know that |
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a future Trustee board won't mess everything up again, and we still |
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barely have any candidates in the elections. |
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We should look for solutions that are sustainable long-term, and not |
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base our decisions on nostalgia. |
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[1] https://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/trustee-manifesto-2019.txt |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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