Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:46:02PM -0600, Eldon Koyle wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 5:08 PM Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> writes:
> >
> > > My biggest high level concern is the income side, since this is the most
> > > difficult part and will likely also be the most controversial one.
> >
> > I could well be entirely wrong, but the part that I would expect to be the
> > most controversial is that, once Debian starts spending project money to
> > pay people to do work that other people in the project are doing for free,
> > the project is doing a form of picking winners and losers. We're deciding
> > as a project that some people's work is valuable enough to pay for and (by
> > omission if nothing else) other people's work is not, and for all the good
> > intentions that we have going in, there are so many ways for this to go
> > poorly.
>
> I think this is a very real concern. What if payment was structured as task
> bounties rather than hiring full-time employees? Then the payment becomes
> an acknowledgement that a task is undesirable or time consuming, rather
> than a status symbol.
Bounties can be useful for developing features.
Bounties are not really useful for continuous tasks to keep the project
runnning, like DPL or system administration.
> Eldon Koyle
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Adrian
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