Hey, looking at https://www.debian.org/partners/2017/partners.en.html it's great to see all this progress. Thank you guys. I noticed a few things while reading through it and would like to offer some random feedback. Feel free to ignore. ;) 1. The first paragraph feels repetitive. I'd probably scratch the third/final sentence, and maybe move sentences 1 and 2 around: because of X, we can improve Debian, DPP was created to recognize these important contributions etc. 2. hardware-based (with hyphen) 3. the fourth point is weird, all the others start with a verb, except this one. 4. non-technical (with hyphen) 5. I'd be careful about mentioning revenue sharing programmes as ongoing financial support. We want reliable/predictable income and so I think companies should be committed to paying a fixed sum X each year. Revenue-based can be quite volatile, and some companies are notoriously known for taking *months* to pay up for the year that's passed. I'm all in favour of using e.g. revenue to influence ranking, such that a 1m revenue company giving 1.000 a year should be recognized the same as a 100m company giving 100.000. This is not too hard to do, I think. But once they commit, we should know how much money to expect, and dictate when it's payable. 6. Last paragraph under "what are the criteria" — are there no lower bounds on meeting criteria? I.e. assume I "assist Debian in distribution of releases" by distributing five CDs. Do I get listed? Maybe the word "substantial" needs to be included somewhere. 7. Which part of "Debian understand the partners needs an concerns"? How do we ensure to "remain properly focused within the market through partner's feedback"? I feel like this is a huge promise we won't be able (or might not want to) keep. 8. Debian partners can also advertise being Debian partners in their own PR. That's a benefit, apart from the cooperation we expect from our partners under "what do partners do for debian"? 9. Under "how does a vendor become partner", I feel like this sounds a bit harsh/hard. Consider maybe something like "If you're interested in becoming a partner of Debian, please send us your proposal of partnership to partners@debian.org. We'll review it, and engage with you to establish acceptable terms for the partnership." 10. I hope that long-term the goal is to integrate DebConf and LTS into this centralised effort. I am so happy to see this moving forward. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@d.o> @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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