On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:57:03PM +0100, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > On Sunday, 02. March 2008 20:25:09 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > > Do we inspire them by telling them that anybody who has made this > > > choice in the past is not to be rewarded financially for doing so? > > This brings up a different point of view too. > > From my point of view it's pretty simple: I don't see us generating enough > interest among people not yet associated with Gentoo to successfully > participate. > > Your idea would be fine with me if we had enough people wanting to do it > but I don't really see that happen.
It could be argued that devs have an inherint advantage- they have far greater access to devs to hash out their ideas, aware of what issues the distro is facing, etc. All of that adds up giving devs a better range of prospects for proposals and ironing out their proposals. To be clear also, I'm not implying any backhand dealings here- just that I view it as a bit of a closed system that makes it easier for those already in the circle to succeed. Personally, I'm not a fan of a flat out "no devs allowed"- a percentile limit however, seems like a good step towards trying to enable a focus on new blood (or even those new to FOSS). Basically, devs have it easy in hammering out a proposal from where I'm sitting- I'd like to see gains in trying to enable new blood, whether doing some limiting of devs or a greater outreach. I'm not suggesting crap proposals should be accepted purely because they're from non-dev also, although I'd be tempted to give prioritization to nondevs if it's neck in neck. > > Why should just somebody be rewarded financially and not someone else? > > Because as a student people usually need the money more. SoC is limited to students anyways, thus kind of moot continuing that particular line of discussion... ~brian
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