questions about audit and budget processes
I had a look over the audit team wiki[1] and have some questions about
the audit and budget process
a) the wiki links to different trust organizations, each of them publish
their own accounting records from time to time. My understanding of the
delegation[2] is that the audit team should pull in the data from the
different trust organizations and prepare a single consolidated balance
sheet and P&L for Debian as a whole. Does that happen?
b) should some of the audit team's responsibilities be specified in the
constitution instead of the delegation? There is already some stuff
about trust organizations and assets in there[3], that section would be
a good place to include some reference to annual financial statements.
c) how would the audit team feel about producing a balance sheet and P&L
at least two months before DPL elections each year? This would make it
easier for all participants (candidates and voters) to evaluate the
financial feasibility of any proposed policies.
d) several people have made requests for funding on this list recently,
is there a budget process for evaluating, prioritizing and approving the
requests? Should they be submitted against a pseudo-package in the BTS
perhaps?
e) just looking at the SPI balance sheet[4], the amount of money that
appears to be held in trust appears to be far higher than actual
expenditure. Should the DPL delegate a team to specifically look after
long term investment of money that Debian doesn't have any immediate
plans for? Simply keeping such large amounts of money in a bank deposit
at minimal interest rates appears comparable to using a default password
but making decisions about such money should be something that is
separate from the audit team.
1. https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Auditor
2. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/10/msg00004.html
3. https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution#item-9
4. http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/annual-reports/2015.pdf
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