On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 12:18:30PM -0700, Buddy Burden wrote: > Paul, > > > In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly > > report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering August 2013. > > +1, definitely.
Thanks very much. Officially, only my grant managers need to approve the work, but it's always nice to know that other people are finding it useful. > Here's what I'm curious about: I notice that you, and many other grant > recipients (e.g. Nicholas Clark) always provide such detailed reports. > I'm so glad, because they make for fascinating reading, but you guys > must spend hours over the course of a grant just writing up your > results. Do you factor that into your grant hours? I think you guys > deserve to get paid for this part of the process too. It's not just a > matter of transparency (although that's very important, granted). I > always think: man, this really shows off what TPF is doing for our > community, and why their work is so vital. So I think that your > detailed grant reports (and those of others, of course) are a sort of > community outreach, on top of representing valuable work that we all > benefit from. You are absolutely correct that writing the reports takes a lot of work. I don't know about any other grant recipients, but I have decided not to charge that work to the grant. And I also agree with your thinking regarding the reports. The transparency is paramount, but there are other benefits, as you note, and I don't think I could have explained them any better. Writing the reports can also make me revisit my thought processes and double check what I am doing or have done. More than once this has caused me to go back and change some code, so there's another benefit. > Anyways, just wanted to share how valuable I thought the time you put > into these reports is, especially if those hours are above and beyond > the time your grant covers (but even if they aren't). Thanks again. I'm always pleased just to find out people are reading them ;-) -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net
