[Jenkins-infra] Rackspace is willing to continue sponsorship

[R. Tyler Croy]

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On Thu, 26 Mar 2020, Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote:

> A rep from Rackspace reached out to me and he said he's working on an
> arrangement to resurrect the sponsorship of our account on Rackspace. I think
> this is a great development.
> 
> The only thing they are asking in return is to be able to use the project's
> logo on their page, that they support us. It sounded like it is a part of the
> broader marketing effort to position their new service called "Spin Up", which
> is targeting developers. They are not expecting us to migrate servers or
> anything like that, but my assumption is that our "subscription plan" changes
> into this new brand.
> 
> Let me know what you think. Unless I hear the objections, I'd like to go back
> to him that the project would like to move forward. I'll also hand over this
> conversation to Olivier so that I won't have to be the middleman.



Have they expressed any desirable timeframe to support us? I would love to see
them at least put down some sort of year or two committment, at least in email.
They pulled the rug out from under a LOT of open source projects recently, all
of whom had the same quid-pro-quo arrangement we had.

I think it's great to utilize Rackspace, but only if they're going to stick
around for a year or two to support us.


Toodles
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