Re: [gentoo-project] Looking for ways the Foundation can accomplish its mission.

[Matthew Thode]

On 18-09-06 14:37:07, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 2:02 PM Yury German <blueknight@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > What prevents us from running an Official binhost? Do we really need Foundation approval (nothing against Foundation).
> > It would just be forming an official project would’t it?
> >
>
> Coordinating with infra probably wouldn't hurt, but per GLEP 39:
> "Any dev may create a new project just by creating a new project page
> on the wiki.gentoo.org (see [2]) and sending a Request For Comments
> (RFC) e-mail to gentoo-dev. Note that this GLEP does not provide for a
> way for the community at large to block a new project, even if the
> comments are wholly negative."
>
> So, kick it off.  You could host it on anything really to start.
> Honestly, I think that is a good model anyway - try to make it
> something infra could accept, but with hosting being more of a
> commodity these days it might make more sense to just let devs do
> their thing and then centralize it later.
>
> Now, if you lack the necessary hardware and want somebody else to pay
> for it all, that would require Foundation approval, assuming you want
> them to do the paying.  The conditions on that are up to the trustees,
> but I'd hope that they would require coordination with infra so that
> we're not just handing out free servers...
>

Yep, the main reason I suggest infra's involvement at all is the compute
resources required along with mirroring.  Other than that anyone can do
it (I could publish my binhost stuff I do internally).

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Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)