What would this professionalisation get us that we don't have now? As far as I can see, the biggest hole at the moment (as always) is with people to trawl the tracker and triage bug reports and patches.
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> >> Ubuntu's sophisticated release plan is certainly justified by its >> business model, and the desire to both appeal to the open source people >> and the corporate people without creating two different distributions. >> >> I don't think Python has the same business requirements (neither does it >> have marketing and commercial teams), and having differentiated releases >> sounds like unwarranted complication. > > IMHO the PSF and Python core development crew doesn't have a business plan > at all. By business plan I'm referring to making money with Python directly. > As far as I know most core developers are working on Python beause it's fun. > Some developers like Guido are paid by their employers to work on Python as > part of their job. > > Just a crazy idea ... Maybe it's time to make the next step toward > professionalizing Python. Python is more and more becoming important for > companies. They have to rely upon a stable and solid Python interpreter. > Perhaps some companies are willing to pay the PSF. In return the PSF could > hire some developer to work on Python full time. A couple of months ago one > well known core developer expressed his interest in a paid job. A crew of > three to four full time developers could make a huge difference. > >> Just my two non-Canonical cents of course! > > Nice pun :) > > Christian > _______________________________________________ > python-committers mailing list > python-committers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers > _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
