On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:43:19PM -0500, David Farning wrote:
One consideration is that these deployment specific issues are often boring -- stuff like bug fixes. As such we are paying the developers the going rate rate for developers in their country or region. This brings three advantages: 1. The deployment issues are fixed. 2. These fixes are pushed upstream for inclusion into Sugar. 3. There is a growing pool of skilled developers, with knowledge of how to work with the Sugar community, co-located with deployment
Another (quite related) consideration is the risk of discouraging similar volunteer efforts. This brings (at least) two disadvantages:
1. Increasing the gap between developers and users. 2. Encumbering the project with (more) discrete communiction. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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