On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015, at 06:50 PM, David Nalley wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote: >> > Initial sketch placed on the wiki: >> > >> > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/WhimsyProposal >> > >> > Anyone who is so inclined is welcome to edit the proposal directly. >> > >> > No urgency or timeframe in mind (other than preferably starting sometime in >> > 2015ish). My current thinking is to follow in Steve's footprints and go >> > directly to TLP, but I'm starting a discussion here (in Incubator) to see >> > if >> > there are any other thoughts on the matter. >> > >> > - Sam Ruby >> > >> >> >> So one question (and perhaps a selfish concern). >> >> Infrastructure has a significant interest in whimsy (the service and >> codebase). I suspect that the ASF is also likely (at least for now) >> the primary user. Infrastructure has spent some time and resources, >> and even has a contractor that is paid on working on Whimsy and the >> associated areas. >> >> My question (and selfish concern) is: We have generally accepted that >> the ASF doesn't pay for development on projects. What does that mean >> for the contractors? Are they effectively forbidden from doing >> development work on Whimsy? In particular, I have a ruby developer >> working as a contractor who I'd like to working on things like Whimsy, >> secretary workbench, etc. > > What a wonderful question!! > > My take: a contractor cannot be paid to work on Whimsy, that's fair and > understandable. He is paid to work on ASF infrastructure. However, as a > part of fulfilling those duties, if he needs to work on Whimsy, or to > code up a patch on httpd, or whatever, so be it. As far as the *project* > is concerned, he is a volunteer the same as everyone else. He's being > paid to work on infrastructure, not on Whimsy. > > One thing that I saw during my stint as VP Fundraising is that projects > and the Foundation really are distinct things. The Foundation can > contract someone to work on a project that it needs in order to support > the work of the Foundation. If that happens to be contributing to an ASF > project, so be it. However, they are not gaining any special privilege, > they are as it were "paid by an external entity" just like all other > contributors to any other ASF project.
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