On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 09:46:05AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 08/05/14 at 22:56 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > [ CCing leader@ as I think its a rather important thing to discuss ] > > > > Hi, > > > > I object against adding new (and incomplete stuff) to a completely outdated > > page. We have a lot of people sponsoring hardware, parts, or monkey for > > hardware, including some who did never ever ask for a press release - or > > don't > > even want to have one and maybe don't want to be mentioned at all. > > > > Adding bytemark to https://www.debian.org/misc/equipment_donations looks > > weird > > to all those who sponsored stuff and who would like to be there, and maybe > > even > > weird to bytemark as they are listed with companies who donated a 20gb > > drive or > > similar things years ago (which was EXPENSIVE back at that time). > > > > That page needs to go away, or it needs to be kept uptodate by people who > > actually know who sponsored what and who wants/should be mentioned (and > > thats > > not the www team, sorry :)) - either the hardware donations people and/or > > the > > Auditors. > > > > Actually I think we should not publish single donations on the web page at > > all, > > at least not in this form. If there was a press release its in the archive, > > but > > keeping track of all donations is a hard task and prone to problems and > > errors, > > and having a general "thank you" page is at least easier to maintain until > > we > > found a proper way to keep track of > > who-sponsored-what-and-wants-to-be-published-how..... > > Hi, > > I agree with you that some improvement is needed about how we manage > and advertise donations. There are plans to do that, but this will > likely take time. I don't think that we should stop advertising > donations in the meantime.
https://www.debian.org/misc/equipment_donations is useless, so I agreed (in my hw-don role) to it's being removed. bytemark is alread listed at https://www.debian.org/partners/ We need to rethink our bronze/silver/gold partner statuses. -- Luca Filipozzi http://www.crowdrise.com/SupportDebian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
