On Sat, 2013-07-20 at 20:10 +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Hello, > > On 09/07/13 10:40, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I approve the purchase of additional storage for backups (~2300 EUR) and > > for our new hosting location at Bytemark, where snapshot.d.o will be moved > > soon (~£7000). > > May I ask some more details about this please; what kind/amount of > storage can DSA get for this, and are these costs for the hardware and > warranty, or does it also include costs of setup, hosting, power or > other ancillary bits? Should be answered by: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/03/msg00010.html > The reason I ask, is that a feature of Debian software and development > work, is being able to derive more benefit from lower-cost, > general-purpose hardware. Debian attempts to support older hardware than many distributions, but it doesn't make software consume less resources. > (And also because this stood out as being > quite a big purchase if it is just storage). We're not talking about a home NAS... > This is somewhere that contributors could help instead of financially, > but by designing, developing, or simply documenting solutions that would > fulfill DSA needs. I know this happens a bit already, DSA heavily makes > use of Debian software and there is even a list of relevant usertagged > bugs[0]. But what things are we not using Debian for yet, and where > could we save DSA some money? I can't understand how you expect to save money on hardware by applying 'more Debian'. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings.
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