Re: Debian Cloud Team delegation updates
On 6/3/20 11:38 PM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote:
> Le 03/06/2020 à 10:50, Bastian Blank a écrit :
>> Hi
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 10:40:05AM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
>>> We might need to explain this to Jonathan: Two or three years back the
>>> Debian Cloud team agreed on an internal policy during a face-to-face in
>>> Seattle that delegates should neither be employees of the cloud
>>> providers nor should there be a direct work contract with one of them.
>>
>> It even got added to the delegation itself:
>>
>> | The Debian Cloud Delegates shall meet the following criteria:
>> | - must not work for or otherwise have a business relationship with
>> | a cloud provider;
>> | - must maintain an arms-length relationship with cloud providers
>> | throughout the duration of their delegation; and
>> | - must be a Debian Developer.
>
> Thanks for bringing the exact text.
>
> IMHO, this requirement makes more difficult to find as someone from the
> people, as AFAIK many of us are working in a way for a cloud provider,
> or a partner.
>
> What are we actually afraid of here ? As far as the build process of the
> images is in the open.
We're afraid of conflict of interest. There's been multiple times where
we saw it could happen, and by having the delegates not involved with a
provider, we're hoping to reduce that risk.
> We have Debian Developpers working for Ubuntu, Redhat, Prodigy, Kali in
> the past and present, and it mostly goes fine.
And? I don't see how this relates to the discussion.
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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