Paul Poulain wrote: > Le 07/11/2013 17:31, glaws a écrit : >> *+1. Excellent idea! How would this work? Would the >> funding organization contract directly with a separate dev >> to signoff/QA, or would the code developer contract >> with someone to do this? Would there be a conflict of >> interest if the funding organization had someone on their staff >> sign/QA if that person was qualified?* > I started a private discussion with some other developers yesterday, > about this question. > > There are different ways to achieve this goal: > * the funder funds 3 different organisations he choose > * the funder funds 1 organisation, that sub-contract 2 others
Uh-oh! I think both of those present the same conflict of interest that is why it is(was?) discouraged for people from one company to do all the development and signing on a patch: they all have a short-term financial incentive to approve less-than-great work. I'm sure many wouldn't, but it still means the reviews aren't very independent. I'd like it if developers could barter sign-off reviews (not the actual sign-offs, because it takes as much time to reject with reasons - if not more time) in a bit more structured/asynchronous way than the current IRC-based begging/nagging. Then a funder could fund 1 organisation and it barters reviews with others to ensure its developments get reviewed. Has anyone an easy way to do this? Think of it like product reviews in magazines. If the manufacturer is paying for the review, it's seen as less reliable than if the recipients of the review are paying for it... we could see the pot of bartered reviews as like the koha-community paying for reviews - but paying by writing other reviews. That still leaves QA as a question, but it's reviews/signoffs that is the tighter bottleneck, isn't it? Other that that aspect, I agree with much of what Paul wrote, which should surprise almost no-one. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
