On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 5:08 PM Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > > Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> writes: > > > My biggest high level concern is the income side, since this is the most > > difficult part and will likely also be the most controversial one. > > I could well be entirely wrong, but the part that I would expect to be the > most controversial is that, once Debian starts spending project money to > pay people to do work that other people in the project are doing for free, > the project is doing a form of picking winners and losers. We're deciding > as a project that some people's work is valuable enough to pay for and (by > omission if nothing else) other people's work is not, and for all the good > intentions that we have going in, there are so many ways for this to go > poorly.
I think this is a very real concern. What if payment was structured as task bounties rather than hiring full-time employees? Then the payment becomes an acknowledgement that a task is undesirable or time consuming, rather than a status symbol. -- Eldon Koyle
