Re: Question for DPL Candidates: sponsorship of Debian development by companies?

2009-03-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 07:41:34PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >On 21/03/09 at 02:34 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >Zack wrote that no one already contributing to Debian should be >> >authorized to pick bounties offered by Debian directly. Would you >> >encourage a similar position for bounties

Re: Question for DPL Candidates: sponsorship of Debian development by companies?

2009-03-21 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 21/03/09 at 02:34 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >Zack wrote that no one already contributing to Debian should be > >authorized to pick bounties offered by Debian directly. Would you > >encourage a similar position for bounties offered as part of the Google > >Summer of Code, for example? > > N

Re: Question for DPL Candidates: sponsorship of Debian development by companies?

2009-03-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Lucas, On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:42:11PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > >This raises the question of bounties sponsored by companies to do Debian >development. Of course, the DPL can't prevent companies from offering >money to do Debian work. However, as a DPL (or 2IC), will you actively >see

Re: Question for DPL Candidates: sponsorship of Debian development by companies?

2009-03-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:42:11PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > This raises the question of bounties sponsored by companies to do > Debian development. Of course, the DPL can't prevent companies from > offering money to do Debian work. However, as a DPL (or 2IC), will > you actively seek such spo

Question for DPL Candidates: sponsorship of Debian development by companies?

2009-03-20 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 20/03/09 at 11:50 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Other potential usages of Debian moneys are bounties, to which I'm not > opposed in principle. However, they should obey to very specific > rules. The first one is that no one already contributing to Debian > should be authorized to pick them