On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 01:12, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>> Do you have concrete suggestions for her on how it should be working?
>
> I know that the FreeBSD community has experimented with paid development
> for FreeBSD in the past; the first such attempt was done by Poul-Henning
> Kamp[1]. AIUI, th
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:53:20PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:12:02AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > I also don't think it is a bad thing, in principle, if Debian were to
> > pay people to work on Debian. However, it is generally a bad idea if
> > some cabal were t
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:12:02AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> I also don't think it is a bad thing, in principle, if Debian were to
> pay people to work on Debian. However, it is generally a bad idea if
> some cabal were to select who could get Debian monies and who couldn't;
> I believe that
Hi Raphael,
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 08:18:00AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this is a question to all DPL candidates.
>
> Imagine a DD contacts you, she wants to setup an infrastructure to finance
> Debian related projects (i.e. paying people to enable them to work on the
> project
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:39:27AM +1100, Anthony Towns wrote:
> But all that aside, GSoC still gets some "flames" on Debian lists; see
> the thread on -devel from about this time last year, eg:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/04/msg00424.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:04:37PM +1100, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 05:01, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > Some DDs are able to pursue specific Debian projects due to bounties
> > they put on the projects (both AJ and Raphael have similar initiatives
> > on their homepages, even
Hi Julien,
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Julien Cristau wrote:
> Compare "Random Joe Developer is soliciting funding for his debian work"
> vs "Debian is soliciting funding for Random Joe Developer's debian
> work". The former is fine IMO, has no risk of being seen as a "Debian"
> thing, and can be done w
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 05:01, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Some DDs are able to pursue specific Debian projects due to bounties
> they put on the projects (both AJ and Raphael have similar initiatives
> on their homepages, even though I don't know how much they are
> successful in terms of "custom
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 05:11, Mike Hommey wrote:
>
> Note that GSoc is supposed to sponsor students to do some development
> work, preferably with the purpose of getting these people involved in a
> project they weren't involved in to begin with.
That's not, per se, accurate. From the GSoC FAQ:
Raphael,
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 17:52:33 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Margarita Manterola wrote:
> > However, if it's seen as a "Debian" thing, instead of an external
> > thing like GSoC is, then it might lead to some resentment from the
> > side of the people that don't
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 07:01:21PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> So, given that my main perplexities come from the fact that a DD is
> involved in organizing all this, you can imagine I wouldn't mind: a
> company doing that (which is already the case for Google with GSoC), a
> non-DD/DM doing
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 08:18:00AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Imagine a DD contacts you, she wants to setup an infrastructure to finance
> Debian related projects (i.e. paying people to enable them to work on the
> projects that they'd like to do for Debian) but she wants to avoid the
> main m
Hi,
thanks for your answers!
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Margarita Manterola wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > Imagine a DD contacts you, she wants to setup an infrastructure to finance
> > Debian related projects (i.e. paying people to enable them to work on the
> >
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Imagine a DD contacts you, she wants to setup an infrastructure to finance
> Debian related projects (i.e. paying people to enable them to work on the
> projects that they'd like to do for Debian) but she wants to avoid the
> main mistakes
Le Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 10:46:23AM +0100, Luk Claes a écrit :
>
> If the money is used to pay people and the donor is paying for a
> specific project where it can know who will get paid, this could be seen
> as a work relationship and open a whole other can of worms than we have
> dealt with befor
Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 08:18:00AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit :
> What I like in your proposal is that the projects will need a donor, as
> opposed
> to directly use Debian money. I think that showing the capacity of finding a
> donor is an important filter before enga
Le Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 08:18:00AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit :
>
> Imagine a DD contacts you, she wants to setup an infrastructure to finance
> Debian related projects (i.e. paying people to enable them to work on the
> projects that they'd like to do for Debian) but she wants to avoid the
>
Hello,
this is a question to all DPL candidates.
Imagine a DD contacts you, she wants to setup an infrastructure to finance
Debian related projects (i.e. paying people to enable them to work on the
projects that they'd like to do for Debian) but she wants to avoid the
main mistakes made during Du
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