On 2022-09-15 17:56, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
> On 9/15/2022 11:46 AM, Andy Smith wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 10:04:48PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
>>> I am not against giving maintainers like Steve just compensation for the
>>> work they do fixing bugs, and by compensation I mean money.
>>
>> It's a very tricky subject to propose to start paying (some?) people
>> in what was always a volunteer project, to do the same work that
>> others do voluntarily. It has been proposed before, and it did not
>> go down well. Search for "dunc tank debian" to read about that.
>>
>> More recently (since 2014), the Debian LTS effort started paying
>> people to upload fixed Debian packages past the end of the normal
>> release lifetime. This is organised by private company Freexian who
>> accept sponsorship funds and pay developers to do this work for
>> Debian, not out of Debian's own funds.
>>
>> https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html
>> https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
>> https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/FAQ
>>
>> They do LTS, ELTS and some other limited scope efforts.
>>
>> If you do use Debian LTS maybe you could consider contributing to
>> this? Though I would point out:
>>
>> - It's not going to give you the right to tell people what to work
>> on, how to do it, govern their timescales etc. Sponsors are paying
>> for a certain amount of developer time per month, but Freexian and
>> those developers decide what to work on and how to do it.
>>
>> - At the moment the minimum contribution is €255/year.
>>
>> It could also be interesting to explore individual packaging teams
>> within Debian having Patreon and/or ko-fi accounts or similar.
>>
>> Broadly though, none of these small scale funding ideas are ever
>> going to give you the kind of service you apparently seem to want:
>> to be able to force the developers to work on what you want them to
>> work on, in the way you want them to work on it. I can only ever see
>> that happening in situations where you pay much much more for a
>> bespoke solution.
>
> So I have to pay someone lots of money to fix a problem I already know how to
> fix?
> I don't think you really understand my use case very well.
>
> Cheers
>
Can you stop complaining and take a minute to go read the code of
conduct, rules regarding the Debian mailing list.
There's no reason to do dual posting.
WtF have you written myself a personal mail ?
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