On 07/09/2018 15:11, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >> - Invest significantly in Infrastructure spending to fund ambitious >> projects. > > You need people who work on that first. > > Suggestion: Found a tinderbox project, get toralf, kensington, zerochaos, > mgorny, whoelse? on board, integrate this into one nice system with (for > authorized users) point-and-click interfaces for bug reporting and public > status web pages. *Then*, invest in fat hardware for it. > > Our shortage is not money or infrastructire. > Our shortage is a) people, and b) cooperation. I'd be interested in this. I've been doing infrastructure work for the Chromium project for a few years, and when done right can be exciting and a good force multiplier for development. Being used to a cloud environment (provisioning a VM within minutes, easy networking, storage, etc, all I can do myself as cloud project owner without intermediaries or becoming a sysadmin myself). I found it harder to start on Gentoo infrastructure projects, and having some kind of private cloud, or Kubernetes-like deployment would IMO help a lot. Paweł