Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:09:06AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Person A gets mad becuase he is afraid that person B will will get pay for something that both had originally agreed to do for free. Now there's a key part of the problem: this

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:00:12 +0200, Jérôme Marant [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Le lundi 09 octobre 2006 18:54, Martin Schulze a écrit : hard on getting Debian better be funded similarily? I know that several people have lost their motivation to work on Debian as before (yes, others will hate me

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:36:57 +0200, Jérôme Marant [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Le mercredi 11 octobre 2006 10:16, vous avez écrit : It's not Dunc Tank's fault if your jealous. Hmm, maybe it is because the developer is jealous on/of somebody being directly or indirectly paid by the project

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:52:57 +1000, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au said: If you want to get paid to work on Debian, then there's a few things that are a good idea: demonstrating you're competent and skilled, that you're willing to work on areas that other people think are important,

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 03:00:02PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: The RMs personally are in a privileged position for requesting funding: The RMs didn't request funding. their role within Debian is critical for the whole project; Plenty of people run unstable, and it's often been mooted that we

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-12 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 13:18, Martin Schulze wrote: Jérôme Marant wrote: It's not Dunc Tank's fault if your jealous. Hmm, maybe it is because the developer is jealous on/of somebody being directly or indirectly paid by the project while they are not? My personal belief

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 03:00:02PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Raphael Hertzog writes (Re: Using money to fund real Debian work): But if the structure is open to everyone, then everybody has a chance to request funding. This is precisely what is wrong with funding the RMs, and what makes

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Jérôme Marant wrote: Le lundi 09 octobre 2006 18:54, Martin Schulze a écrit : hard on getting Debian better be funded similarily? I know that several people have lost their motivation to work on Debian as before (yes, others will hate me for writing this again) because of this. Some

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
Le mercredi 11 octobre 2006 09:05, Martin Schulze a écrit : Jérôme Marant wrote: Le lundi 09 octobre 2006 18:54, Martin Schulze a écrit : hard on getting Debian better be funded similarily? I know that several people have lost their motivation to work on Debian as before (yes,

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Huh? I hate to be the one to break it to you, but many things life boil down to a question of time or money. * Do I mow my lawn (time) or hire someone to do it (money)? * Do I was my car (time) or hire someone to do it (money)? * Do I program my own OS (time) or

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Jérôme Marant wrote: hard on getting Debian better be funded similarily? I know that several people have lost their motivation to work on Debian as before (yes, others will hate me for writing this again) because of this. Some developers ask themselves already why they should work

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:16:07AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Jérôme Marant wrote: hard on getting Debian better be funded similarily? I know that several people have lost their motivation to work on Debian as before (yes, others will hate me for writing this again) because of

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
Le mercredi 11 octobre 2006 10:16, vous avez écrit : It's not Dunc Tank's fault if your jealous. Hmm, maybe it is because the developer is jealous on/of somebody being directly or indirectly paid by the project while they are not? My personal belief is that being jealous is wrong. If

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
Le mercredi 11 octobre 2006 10:30, vous avez écrit : Hmm, maybe it is because the developer is jealous on/of somebody being directly or indirectly paid by the project while they are not? Which is why the paiement should have come from the debian funds. It would have been order's of

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-11 Thread MJ Ray
Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Person A gets mad becuase he is afraid that person B will will get pay for something that both had originally agreed to do for free. Now there's a key part of the problem: this changes agreements that some developers made with the debian

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:58:45AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Huh? I hate to be the one to break it to you, but many things life boil down to a question of time or money. * Do I mow my lawn (time) or hire someone to do it (money)? * Do I was my car (time)

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Jérôme Marant wrote: It's not Dunc Tank's fault if your jealous. Hmm, maybe it is because the developer is jealous on/of somebody being directly or indirectly paid by the project while they are not? My personal belief is that being jealous is wrong. Many people consider

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
Le mercredi 11 octobre 2006 01:52, Stephen Gran a écrit : This one time, at band camp, Thibaut VARENE said: It's obvious giving money will affect someone's behaviour (allowing him/her to work full time on a project, for instance). And as action induces reaction, the moment there's someone

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:09:06AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Person A gets mad becuase he is afraid that person B will will get pay for something that both had originally agreed to do for free. Now there's a key part of the problem: this

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-11 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 11:54:46PM +, Bill Allombert wrote: On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 12:34:01PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: The set of projects that can be funded are projects proposed by Debian developers. I expect Debian developers to propose only projects that are improving Debian.

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-11 Thread Roland Mas
Martin Schulze, 2006-10-11 10:10:15 +0200 : Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Huh? I hate to be the one to break it to you, but many things life boil down to a question of time or money. * Do I mow my lawn (time) or hire someone to do it (money)? * Do I was my car (time) or hire someone to do it

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-11 Thread Michael Kallas
Hi, Jérôme Marant schrieb: My personal belief is that being jealous is wrong. This may be morally true. But humans are not morally perfect. They are corrupted easily, as a matter of fact. The greatest corruptors are money and power. Best wishes Michael Kallas -- Nobody can save your freedom

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Raphael Hertzog writes (Re: Using money to fund real Debian work): But if the structure is open to everyone, then everybody has a chance to request funding. This is precisely what is wrong with funding the RMs, and what makes it different from funding some particular package development

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:58:45AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Huh? I hate to be the one to break it to you, but many things life boil down to a question of time or money. * Do I mow my lawn (time) or hire someone to do it

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:15:00PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Yet, if you are able to make Debian your client, then you can do that which you enjoy *and* get paid for it. With my list, I was trying to That would involve taking over the person of either Andreas Barth or Steve Langasek. I

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-11 Thread Roland Mas
Ian Jackson, 2006-10-11 21:10:12 +0200 : This is quite different from the case with a programming task: if I decide I can do some D-I work that needs doing better than the D-I maintainers, I can just do it, and if my pet benefactor agrees with me, I can get paid to do it and the result _will_

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-10 Thread MJ Ray
Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I would submit that people who consider quitting or actually quit over something like that probably have other issues to deal with. Can we leave the sanity attacks out of it, please? It's unhelpful to suggest that all the people with concerns

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-10 Thread Thibaut VARENE
On 10/8/06, Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not related: - known developers are not necessarily bad developers - technically good developers are not necessarily unknown These are extremely bold assumptions, stated as if they were facts. Cunning. And here comes the well known

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-10 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 09:40:40AM +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote: On 10/8/06, Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not related: - known developers are not necessarily bad developers - technically good developers are not necessarily unknown These are extremely bold assumptions,

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-10 Thread Jérôme Marant
Le lundi 09 octobre 2006 18:54, Martin Schulze a écrit : hard on getting Debian better be funded similarily? I know that several people have lost their motivation to work on Debian as before (yes, others will hate me for writing this again) because of this. Some developers ask themselves

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 12:00:12AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: Le lundi 09 octobre 2006 18:54, Martin Schulze a écrit : hard on getting Debian better be funded similarily? I know that several people have lost their motivation to work on Debian as before (yes, others will hate me for

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 08:37:32AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I would submit that people who consider quitting or actually quit over something like that probably have other issues to deal with. Can we leave the sanity attacks out of it, please?

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 09:40:40AM +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote: In my view, if I were involved in a given project, giving it a good part of my free (unpaid) time, and I were to see some other guy working on this very same project doing the same work I'm doing, I guess I wouldn't feel

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-10 Thread Guido Heumann
MJ Ray schrieb: Can we leave the sanity attacks out of it, please? It's unhelpful to suggest that all the people with concerns about this experiment have personality problems. Are the attacks on people because there are no good answers to the concerns of Martin Schulze and others? From

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-10 Thread Denis Barbier
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 09:22:04PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: [...] The strange thing is that while I see lots of discussion about why people should or should not be allowed to fund particular developers to do particular things, I don't see any similar discussion about why people should

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-10 Thread Denis Barbier
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 01:14:05PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: [...] Would I love to get paid to my work on Debian? Sure, who wouldn't? But, is it going to make me quit if someone else working on something for Debian gets paid to do it? Nope. I would submit that people who consider

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 08:50:39PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 09:22:04PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: [...] The strange thing is that while I see lots of discussion about why people should or should not be allowed to fund particular developers to do particular

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-10 Thread Denis Barbier
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 03:53:34PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 08:50:39PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 09:22:04PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: [...] The strange thing is that while I see lots of discussion about why people should

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:14:16PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: Program runs successfully here after dropping the 'assert (tine == money);' statement. Huh? I hate to be the one to break it to you, but many things life boil down to a question of time or money. Re-read my

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Denis Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the introduction of our Constitution: The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system[*]. I first did not notice the footnote [*] ... and find a job in the IT industry. My

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Thibaut VARENE wrote: It's obvious giving money will affect someone's behaviour (allowing him/her to work full time on a project, for instance). And as action induces reaction, the moment there's someone which is given money, there will be two class of peoples: the ones

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-10 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Denis Barbier said: On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 03:53:34PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 08:50:39PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 09:22:04PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: [...] The strange thing is that while

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-10 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Thibaut VARENE said: It's obvious giving money will affect someone's behaviour (allowing him/her to work full time on a project, for instance). And as action induces reaction, the moment there's someone which is given money, there will be two class of peoples: the

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-09 Thread Martin Schulze
Raphael Hertzog wrote: [ Continuing publicly a discussion started in -private, with the agreement of Pierre ] The discussion concerns the use of money as a resource within Debian. Dunc-Tank's principle is to use the money to pay for real work and not only for travel expenses and

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 06:54:09PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: When money is involved the project changes. Developers will have to ask why devel 1 is paid but not devel 2? Is devel 2 not doing good work? Will it work for devel 1 if they work more on Debian so get paid as well? Why does

Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Continuing publicly a discussion started in -private, with the agreement of Pierre ] The discussion concerns the use of money as a resource within Debian. Dunc-Tank's principle is to use the money to pay for real work and not only for travel expenses and reimbursments. This principle is too new

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-08 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le dim 8 octobre 2006 12:34, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : In the worst scenario, the sponsor will be disappointed and will not give money any more. But if the rules are clear from the beginning, it's only fair. it's not true. If the sponsoree well-beeing (because he tries to live from that)

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 08 Oct 2006, Pierre Habouzit wrote: Le dim 8 octobre 2006 12:34, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : In the worst scenario, the sponsor will be disappointed and will not give money any more. But if the rules are clear from the beginning, it's only fair. it's not true. If the sponsoree

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-08 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le dim 8 octobre 2006 14:18, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : And if the comments associated to the project proposal indicate that there's some controversy in the idea behind the project, then the donor would be aware that there's a risk that the stuff doesn't get integrated into Debian proper.

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Pierre Habouzit said: Le dim 8 octobre 2006 14:18, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : And if the comments associated to the project proposal indicate that there's some controversy in the idea behind the project, then the donor would be aware that there's a risk that the

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-08 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le dim 8 octobre 2006 15:36, Stephen Gran a écrit : This one time, at band camp, Pierre Habouzit said: Le dim 8 octobre 2006 14:18, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : And if the comments associated to the project proposal indicate that there's some controversy in the idea behind the project,

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-08 Thread Bill Allombert
[mostly reposting what I sent to debian-private] On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 12:34:01PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I also explained that Dunc-Tank's initial experiment of funding release manager is not a long term model for us. And as a board member, I said that I don't intend to fund other

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 12:34:01PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: The set of projects that can be funded are projects proposed by Debian developers. I expect Debian developers to propose only projects that are improving Debian. If some of those projects also serve the private interest of

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 11:54:46PM +, Bill Allombert wrote: This means that someone with a lot of money will be able to decide which projects will be completed just be funding them. Other projects will not be completed because people will lack time and incentive even if these projects

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This means that someone with a lot of money will be able to decide which projects will be completed just be funding them. Other projects will not be completed because people will lack time and incentive even if these projects would improve Debian more.

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 11:54:46PM +, Bill Allombert wrote: This means that someone with a lot of money will be able to decide which projects will be completed just be funding them. Other projects will not be completed because people will lack time and incentive even if these projects

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-08 Thread Mike Bird
On Sunday 08 October 2006 19:56, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 11:54:46PM +, Bill Allombert wrote: This means that someone with a lot of money will be able to decide which projects will be completed just be funding them. Other projects will not be completed because

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 08:45:22PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: On Sunday 08 October 2006 19:56, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: In my opinion, this is exactly the same as: This means that someone with a lot of time will be able to decide which projects will be completed just by doing them. Other