On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Hadrian Zbarcea <hzbar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > David, your answer gets 5 stars from me.
Ditto... End of the day, the money for said paid developers will be coming from some monetary contributors, and instead of fighting that they have no say in how the money is to be spent, we can simply say "Hire the developers yourself, and do the work you see most fit for you.", which is what happens in reality. If you look at the "local time of commits", I think it is pretty clear that a large portion of all contributions are "at work" or "paid for". And we are fine with that... A more interesting question would be; Are projects allowed "Hire a community member" pages, where individuals can announce their availability to get paid to work on features or even downstream application of their Apache Foo project? I can't recall seeing that, although there are such pages referencing hiring entire companies for this. So, I am curious whether a market actually exist... since I have on a couple of occasions secured freelance contracts (without the advert/announcement of availability) at ASF projects. Cheers -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://polygene.apache.org - New Energy for Java
