On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 10:44 +0000, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > On 13/07/19 21:25, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Sat, 2019-07-13 at 22:15 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: > > > On 2019.07.13 21:56, Alec Warner wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 1:15 PM Roy Bamford > > > > wrote: > > > > > > Maybe an example will help? What group or individual within > > > Gentoo will determine if directing the umbrella to buy a Power9 > > > system for the distro is a good idea or not. > > > > The Council, obviously. As it should be doing it today, except by > > some weird mistake Foundation decides to skip it entirely and > > authorize technical decisions on its own. > > I strongly disagree with this position,. > Both Infra and Releng shouldn't (I'd go as further as saying don't) > need Council approval for spending money. Both teams funding requests > are rightly evaluated by Trustees and can be refused, but in neither > case should there be a "technical oversight" by the Council. > Best regards, > Do you have any arguments to support this claim? I'd dare say you need one, especially that you're talking about special privileges that affect yourself. Why do you claim that Trustees (= people ideally with financial or legal background) are the right people to evaluate technical merits of funding requests? Just because our Trustees happen to be technically competent people doesn't justify a general rule. Does that mean that if we switch to an umbrella, Infra and RelEng want to request expenses directly from the umbrella, entirely skipping Gentoo supervision? -- Best regards, Michał Górny