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

[Rich Freeman]

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...

-- 
Rich