Hi! On 2024/03/27 12:25, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
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?
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Please, let's take some time to think about the implications of spending a shitload of money to buy hardware that we wouldn't know where to host, and that would require a load of maintenance and time. If any discussion should arise on these matters, I'd rather them to occur not as a platform for a DPL candidate but after a reasonable discussion with the concerned parties, eg, DSA.
I'm trying not to respond to too many mails here because I don't want to take away too much attention from the candidates, but I also don't think we have a problem of money heaping up anymore. Across the project, our financial needs are mostly met, and it helps having some reserve cash for a rainy day.
Also on the DSA front, they have just filed a request two weeks ago for upgrades at UBC in the range of $110-$160k, so it's not like we're spending nothing on hardware either! Also, every single hardware request over the last 4 years (whether from DSA or from a DD) has been approved. I hope that's something that our new DPL will continue doing so for every reasonable request going forward as well!
-Jonathan