"John Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2)One real issue with Debian is a lack of admin tools, (such as yast is for > SuSE). Considering starting a project to develop a range of gui based admin > tools for Debian.
I think debconf is slowly growing more GUI. If one uses a gnome-apt and selects the gnome debconf front end, does that start to give graphical admin? Is that the sort of direction the project should head, do you think? > 3) [...] If I donate a million pounds to the Debian cause, what > happens to this investment? Money decisions have mostly been left to the projec A 10-million dollar donation question was posed in the recent project leader debates. See around lines 645 and 753-869 of http://people.debian.org/~mjr/irc/dpl-debate-2007/dpl-debate-botless.html Anthony Towns is uncertain whether we could handle it; Wouter Verhelst would refuse it; Aigars Mahinovs would give it to Ubuntu; Steve McIntyre would spend it on conferences; the others didn't really answer AFAICS. There might be other things in the platforms on http://www.uk.debian.org/vote/ and we should know who's elected in a few days. [...] > - The investment is placed into a Escrow type account. > - If the project is completed on the time the allocated investment is > passed to the project leader. > - The would be the projects leaders responsibility to share the > contribution accordingly. > - The project is only completed so long its agreed upon by the > investor and the project leader. I dislike that this leaves developers without payment while they're doing the work, which is a bit vulnerable, not sustainable. Some portion should be paid at start and for each milestone. I know this gambles some of the money, but it does give better feedback and management than this all-or-nothing payment plan. It's quite normal, that if I'm working for someone new, I insist on some guarantee if it's more work than I'm willing to gamble. I think most of the debian-related projects which people would fund are going to be more work than a developer would usually gamble. Regards, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Webmaster/web developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop maker, developer of koha, debian, gobo, gnustep, various mail and web s/w. Workers co-op @ Weston-super-Mare, Somerset http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
