I saw on the MOSS list that the proposal deadline is about 3 days away. If no one thinks it's objectionable, I could suggest putting in a proposal to pay for testing, bug triage work, i18n work (choosing a new platform and porting our translation effort to a new platform), and similar project management work. I have just started a FLOSS project management consulting firm http://changeset.nyc and could do this work. I am trying to limit my suggestions here to stuff that's backlogged and that volunteers don't have enough time + interest to do in the next 3 months.
Sumana On Wed Oct 28 03:01:53 2015 GMT-0400, Abhilash Raj wrote: > > On 10/27/2015 09:30 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > Barry Warsaw writes: > > > > > What would *we* like to do that we can't do because of resources? > > > > That's where I'm blocked. I can't honestly put myself up as a > > money-sink: I wouldn't mind getting paid for my effort, but I wouldn't > > put in any less effort just because I'm unpaid. ;-) > > > > Hm ... maybe generalizing Andrew's authn/authz stuff? Mozilla would > > probably like improved Persona support? Andrew would be good for that > > and ISTR he's a freelancer. > > > > I wouldn't mind compensating a student even if she/he would do the > > work for free anyway. But except for Abhilash, I can't recommend any > > recent student for a project I think is valuable enough to request > > such resources without at the same time volunteering to mentor > > intensively. Not enough experience, and the project I have in mind is > > not an extension of any GSoC project. And I can't really volunteer at > > this point. > > > > As for Abhilash himself, I think he should concentrate on his graduate > > studies. There's no problem with him volunteering the occasional > > half-day to Mailman, but I've seen far too many students seriously > > hindered in getting the most out of their graduate study by committing > > to consulting work. I won't oppose him if he wants to do something, > > but I won't nominate him. > > I doubt I would be able to actually do a contract work at all, even if I > wanted to, due to F-1 Visa regulations. Not for next 8 months at least. > And I have too much in my plate right now, grad school keep me busy! But > I can spend some time to mentor/help someone else as a volunteer for > whichever project we choose. > > (@Abhilash: If you decide to apply against > > my advice, it's just advice. I'll be happy to support you to the > > extent I can in your Mailman work or your graduate study, whatever you > > want to do -- though I suspect I'd be useless in the latter role. ;-) > > (off the topic: Prof, I would like to talk to you sometime for some > advice about studies :) > > > > > If somebody else is willing to mentor *my* suggestions: there are a > > couple of new proposals for DMARC mitigation out there. I would be > > willing to evaluate them (in the remaining hours) for use in Mailman. > > Why "evaluate"? As most of you probably know, message signing and > > signature validation are normally considered MTA functions, and > > Mailman needn't/shouldn't try to duplicate that functionality. > > However, with experimental protocols, of course they won't be in > > production MTAs for a while, so it *might* be worthwhile to offer > > support in Mailman as a spur/temporary workaround while the MTAs > > implement the new protocols. > > Again off the topic: I recently came to know (from my Advisor) that my > implementation of Digital signatures in mailman can be improved by > implementing algorithms where the server does not actually decrypts the > email, just transforms it so that the recipients can decrypt that. I > don't have the details, but I am gonna explore more in that front soon. > > > > > > I don't (yet) have a developer to recommend, though. > > > > Steve > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailman-Developers mailing list > > Mailman-Developers@python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers > > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > > Searchable Archives: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ > > Unsubscribe: > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/raj.abhilash1%40gmail.com > > > > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > > > > -- > thanks, > Abhilash Raj > > -- Please excuse terseness; sent from mobile. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9