Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money
Sam Hartman dijo [Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 09:02:54AM -0400]:
> (...)
>
> With regard to Russ's concerns,
> I think that making short-term grants to work on specific projects might
> be much more achievable for us than salaries. It reduces the factors
> he's worried about.
> I think there would still be significant risk, but not nearly as much as
> if we were actually paying salaries on an ongoing basis.
> (...)
> I actually think that Debian could possibly hire people to do our website on a
> contract without it being a huge problem. We'd explicitly want the www
> team (or hopefully no one in our community) not to bid. We'd want the
> www team to be guiding the process and for the contract to be about
> doing the things they don't want to or never get around to doing.
> We'd want it to be something we'd be willing to do again in similar
> circumstances, so that if it did actually change what people were
> willing to work on that would be OK.
> In that model, the www team would be more about deciding overall
> structure, making the decisions than actually going and implementing
> them.
Reading this discussion, my main thought was following the line of
finding _what_ to fund as a first point. And, of course, you and
others have touched the points. It should be about funding stuff that
would otherwise not be carried out well enough.
I am aware your example is just an example - But don't you think that
following through with this would have a sad effect on the www team:
It would be equivalent to tell them, "thanks for your work for so many
years, but we have decided it's a weak spot in the project, and we'd
be much better off if somebody else were to do it".
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