On Sat, 2019-07-13 at 13:18 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote:
> On 2019.07.13 13:12, Roy Bamford wrote:
> > Team,
> > 
> > This is a meta topic to collect Questions For Gentoo Foundation
> > Trustee Candidates together.
> 
> We have several candidates with a declared platform of dissolving 
> the Gentoo foundation.

This is already answered in my Manifesto [1] but I'll repeat here for
completeness.

> 1. Will all candidates make their position on the future of the Foundation
> clear.

I'm for dissolving the Foundation in favor of professional umbrella if
such an opportunity arises (unless the offer is very bad).  If this
turns out not to be possible, I believe we should aim towards
maintaining good standing forward, look for a ways to reduce the costs
of maintaining it and look for the possibility of making donations tax-
deducible (if we are really able of supporting that).

> 2. Will all candidates explain the reasoning supporting their position
> on their future plans for the existence (or otherwise) of the Foundation. 

The reasoning is simple.  We haven't been able to maintain Foundation
in really good standing *for years*.  Even if we are closing to
*finally* fix things, it mostly relies on a few people putting a lot of
work, and this means low bus factor.  There's no way to know that
a future Trustee board won't mess everything up again, and we still
barely have any candidates in the elections.

We should look for solutions that are sustainable long-term, and not
base our decisions on nostalgia.

[1] https://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/trustee-manifesto-2019.txt

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny