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Re: Question to Martin: How are your Grants and Paid DPL Proposals Differnt than Dunc-Tanc



Hi Martin

On 2019/03/26 14:30, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Fairness and privilege: you and Joerg can run for DPL because of
> your employer support; Jonathan and I can run because we're willing to
> sacrifice a hit to our income.  But how many potential DPL candidates
> are we ruling out because they have full-time jobs that don't involve
> Debian, that have children, etc, etc.

Full disclosure: my part-time employer supports me in my Debian
endeavors, and some of my packaging work is paid for as well. Overall
100% of my income comes from Debian related work, and sure I use a lot
of my personal free time for Debian too, but for the most part I enjoy
it and it's a better way to spend free time than to lay around and watch
TV or play games all day.

I'd encourage anyone to make a living from working on what you care
about, it's great! But that's a very different kettle of fish than
expecting Debian itself to pay you for a role.

> Anyway, a good counter example is the LTS effort.  While not Debian,
> it's as close as Debian as you can get (and there are good arguments
> that it's something Debian ought to do directly).  It has been
> completely non-controversial (apart from some minor questions about
> the usage of the Debian name) and it has filled an important need that
> we were not able to fill with volunteers.  We would not have Debian
> LTS today if it weren't for the sponsors providing the funds to pay for
> this work (and Raphaël Hertzog's imitative in making it happen in the
> first place and keeping it going).  And let's face it, the lack of LTS
> was a huge reason for companies to move away from Debian.

Well, Debian LTS *is* part of Debian, at least according to the Debian
LTS team, unless there's something else you're alluding to?

-Jonathan

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