On 9/28/19 9:07 PM, Guillem Jover wrote: > I'm afraid this argument cuts both ways. I would find it extremely > demotivating if Debian started spending money to pay people to work > on tasks that up to now have been volunteer based (where volunteer > of course can include a company volunteering employees time f.ex.).
I don't think any of the projects like gcc, the kernel, binutils or glibc are maintained by volunteers these days. At least I don't know any volunteer doing that work on a larger scale. At SUSE, we have dedicated teams who work on gcc, the kernel, kvm and so on. I don't think anyone - unless they are rather wealthy - can afford to spend working all day on a project without getting paid. > I already find the LTS effort borderline, where I try to refuse out > of principle to do LTS work for packages I maintain, and where I've > found myself being pretty unhappy that one time I had to do some of > that for a native package, which would have had a very weird release > history otherwise. :/ Not sure what the problem with LTS is. I thought companies pay for the extra effort. I think it's a perfectly fine business model. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
