Autore: sajolida Data: To: The Tails public development discussion list Oggetto: Re: [Tails-dev]
Basing Tails on quarterly snapshots of Debian Testing: status update… and next steps?
intrigeri: > sajolida:
>> Speaking as an accountant: I'm worried about taking important money
>> decisions before the end of the fundraising campaign and our budget
>> planning which will happen in February.
>> Because I wouldn't like to commit to paying work on "rolling Tails"
>> (what's the name of your project by the way?) to then realize two
>> months later that we will be very short on other core budget lines.
>> This applies to technical writing as well: I'd rather have more
>> money for core technical writing in 2018 than money for technical
>> writing on "rolling Tails" now.
>
> Absolutely. We've already discussed this elsewhere and I think
> I already made it clear from the beginning that I agree with all this.
>
> When I wrote "I can look into the money aspect more closely" I didn't
> mean to put this back on the table. Instead, I meant looking into
> re-purposing money that's *already* budgeted elsewhere for purposes
> I find questionable at the moment. I'd rather not elaborate on
> a public mailing list though.
I'm fine with repurposing!
> Regarding the project name: currently the best we have is "Basing
> Tails on quarterly snapshots of Debian Testing", sorry.
> Improvements are welcome. "rolling" means something different, let's
> not use it.
