On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:47 PM, John Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Gregory Kohs <thekoh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Let me recommend something. Pay Anthony Dipierro the sum of $5,500, > give > >> him server access, give him eight weeks, and if he doesn't produce a > full > >> history dump of the English Wikipedia, then perhaps his penance could be > a > >> one-year ban from Wikimedia mailing lists? > > > > > > That's a bit presumptuous of you, Greg. > > I don't know the background of this, so I don't understand why this > would be presumptuous of Greg. > I never said I could do this in eight weeks, I never offered a "penance" of a one-year ban if I fail, and I certainly never committed to 40 hours a week. The penance especially doesn't make sense. The WMF can ban me for free if they want to. While Gregs recommendation to have WMF grant to develop certain > functionality, I would prefer that WMF offers bounties. > It's not clear to me how a bounty for developing functionality would work, especially not for something complicated like fixing the dump system. A contracted out service as opposed to a per-hour rate, sure. But a bounty? I've just noticed that bounties are mentioned on this strategy proposal. > > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/strategy/wiki/ > Proposal:Track_bugs_in_other_projects_impeding_our_progress A bug bounty is generally given for finding a bug, not for fixing it. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
