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

[Matthew Thode]

On 18-09-06 17:52:56, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-09-06 at 10:22 -0500, Matthew Thode wrote:
> > On 18-09-06 08:47:05, Alec Warner wrote:
> > > Dear Gentoo Community,
> > >
> > > I have recently become the President of the Gentoo Foundation Inc. The
> > > Foundation's documents[0] provide fairly terse guidance on how the
> > > Foundation is to be operated. The Foundation currently provides funding for
> > > Gentoo Infrastructure, and very little else. Part of my job as President is
> > > to determine what additional activities the Foundation can pursue (if any);
> > > and to determine how the Foundation can improve Gentoo by investing in
> > > infrastructure, while still meeting the spirit of the other restrictions on
> > > Foundation activities[1]. So community, how do you think the Foundation can
> > > assist the development of Gentoo?
> > >
> > > Some ideas might be:
> > >  - Host a Gentoo Conference.
> > >  - Host a bug-bounty program.
> > >  - Fund talks about Gentoo development activities at industry conferences.
> > >  - Invest significantly in Infrastructure spending to fund ambitious
> > > projects.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > -Alec
> > > President, Gentoo Foundation Inc.
> > >
> > > [0]
> > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Main_Page#Tasks_of_the_Gentoo_Foundation
> > > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Main_Page#Gentoo_is_independent
> >
> > One idea I had infra-wise was to expand the idea of our devspace.
> > Increase the footprint of our virtualizatoin infra and (on request) give
> > devs a VM for dev work.  Possibly even do some arm64 or ppc64 work there
> > too.  Beyond that, running a binhost may be an idea, get people
> > bootstrapped faster.
> >
> > I do agree with K_F in that targeting existing confrences would be nice.
> > I think the two we'd have the most luck in would be fosdem scale.
> >
> > A bug bounty program sounds neat, we could take input on bugs to target
> > from council I think.  (I personally would like to work on make gentoo
> > better support openstack-ansible :D).
> >
>
> It would be nice to also have an official way to quickly start off full
> up-to-date system images, possibly in multiple variants.
>

I'm kinda doing that somewhat with my openstack-images, they are just
guest images though http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/amd64/openstack/
My process could easilly be modified to have a more generic image (just
don't install glean).  More complex images could be done too via install
scripts or the running of puppet/ansible to set up services and the
like.

-- 
Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)