Re: Mission Statement

[Pascal Terjan <pterjan gmail com>]

On 7 August 2014 15:16, Máirín Duffy <duffy fedoraproject org> wrote:
> Hi,
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> On 08/07/2014 10:05 AM, Pascal Terjan wrote:
> > I doesn't help. Do you think that because they could help this should
> > be the permanent solution and there is no need to find a better one?
> > Are you still using their hose?
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> Here is what I said in the email that you initially replied to:
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> "If there are financial concerns, let's continue to go through the actual
> data and see if there is a way to solve them."
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> I thought a house running from one neighbor's house to another was a clear
> illustration of a *temporary* solution to help someone out before they were
> solvent on their own. No, we are not still using the hose. We had to solve
> the root problem of getting pipe repaired and securing the funds /
> responsibility there before it could be disconnected though. How can you not
> see how this relates?
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> > No one said we should drop it and ask that someone takes it over.
> > It should be discussed with other participants and when a better
> > solution is found it can be transitioned.
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> No one said that in as many words, no. But when it is essentially being said
> that (1) it is able to operate at this time due to support from GNOME that
> GNOME cannot afford AND (2) it should be split off from GNOME, then the end
> result is splitting something off that cannot operate on its own. This is
> equivalent to killing it unless I am missing something.

The possibilities I have seen discussed so far were:
- Get more funding to be able to employ someone
- Create a spearate fundation but that seems hard and could have more
problems than GNOME currently has
- Get things administrated by one of the other bigger participating
organizations

I haven't felt anyone wanted to get rid of it just to get rid of it