On 12/09/13 at 18:38 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Wed, August 28, 2013 18:12, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] Lucas Nussbaum > > > >> I like this idea of "max outstanding of $300" instead of an explicit > >> time limit. But I think that your proposal makes it possible for DSA to > >> not get reimbursed if the DPL is grumpy and decides not to approve the > >> expense. I would rather use "DPL acknowledgement" than "DPL approval". > > > > First, thanks for pushing this forward, much appreciated. > > > >> So, new proposal: > >> DSA is allowed to make expenses and get reimbursed by Trusted > >> Organizations for up to US$300 to support the operation of Debian > >> infrastructure (pay shipping costs, purchase of cheap hardware such as > >> cables, replacement disk, etc.). > > > > Given we're not buying the cheapest disks we can find (since they have > > worse warranties, etc), replacement disks quite often ends up at > > approximately the $300 mark, maybe make the limit $400 or $500? > > Similar mandates exist in many other organisations, and are often even > template by-law text. The one's I've encountered are very much the same. > They boil down to a mandate for expenses of 500 euro (this amount seems to > be quite constant between different organisations aswell) per incident / > purchase / work order, for which no pre-approval is required. The mandate > does not remove accountability of course, so if someone bought candy with > it or doesn't have a receipt, they're still liable. I don't think anything > that Debian does needs to be more complicated than this. After all, the > people in those roles are already trusted by the project to do way more > important things.
I realize now that your mail was not answered, despite raising a very valid point. I agree that we are probably over-designing this process a bit, and that many other organizations have simpler processes. However, Debian's revenues come mainly from donations, and I think that this increases our requirement to act in a very responsible, justifiable and public manner with our funds. Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
