Question to all candidates: what to do with the Debian money, shall we invest in hardware and cloud?

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

Hi,

As you know, there's a large amount of money sleeping in SPI account for 
Debian. Do you have ideas on how to spend it?

Would you be ok spending 100k USD on buying hardware for a new Debian 
cloud, for example? I've always volunteered to operate it for Debian, 
but it never went through, because I haven't spent time to find where to 
host it and so on, but highvoltage liked the idea. Do you like this 
idea? Do you think it'd be useful for Debian?

Also, I found very annoying that we don't have enough buildd, or that 
the reproducible build project doesn't have as much hardware as they 
would like. Would it be ok to spend another 100k USD for this kind of 
things?

For some packages of mine, the current shared runners are too slow to 
even run time-based tests of openvswitch for example... What about the 
Salsa CI? Couldn't we pay some cloud providers to have faster shared 
runners? It wouldn't be hard to hook them.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)

P.S: To other DDs reading: feel free to voice your opinion too.