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 -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) <jcc> ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer - https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back.
