Re: Question about contributing to debian financially.

2022-11-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2022-11-16 at 08:35 -0500, Zeke Williams wrote: > I have an additional question for if I were to hire someone personally > to maintain certain debian packages. What happens with the security > team if a package has no maintainer and a security vulnerability is > found? Does the security te

Re: Question about contributing to debian financially.

2022-11-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 08:35:01AM -0500, Zeke Williams wrote: I have an additional question for if I were to hire someone personally to maintain certain debian packages. What happens with the security team if a package has no maintainer and a security vulnerability is found? Does the security te

Re: Question about contributing to debian financially.

2022-11-16 Thread Zeke Williams
I have an additional question for if I were to hire someone personally to maintain certain debian packages. What happens with the security team if a package has no maintainer and a security vulnerability is found? Does the security team recompile the package with the patch even if there is no maint

Re: Question about contributing to debian financially.

2022-11-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2022-11-15 at 12:22 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Debian is defined –and proud– to be a volunteer-based project, > that is, we don't hire and have never hired people to do our work, > technical or otherwise. The only exception thus far has been Outreachy internships. > If you donate funds

Re: Question about contributing to debian financially.

2022-11-15 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hello Zeke, Zeke Williams dijo [Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 08:36:15AM -0500]: > I'm considering in the future, funding the debian project financially. > More specifically, helping fund hiring package maintainers for > orphaned packages as well as individuals who can maintain the security > patches. How

Question about contributing to debian financially.

2022-11-15 Thread Zeke Williams
Greetings. I'm considering in the future, funding the debian project financially. More specifically, helping fund hiring package maintainers for orphaned packages as well as individuals who can maintain the security patches. How can I help? Or rather, how would I be able to help if I wanted to hel