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".
