[Gdal-dev] RFC 9: Paid Maintainer Guidelines

[Daniel Morissette]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> 
> My wish was to make the activities of the maintainer fairly clear to the
> PSC and sponsors.  If it was by-request only I doubt it would often get
> requested, and no one but the supervisor would really know what is going
> on.
> 

I agree that we need to keep the PSC and sponsors well informed and that 
providing the report only by request is not the best option. Perhaps a 
non-archived private list including the sponsors and PSC could be used 
for that kind of stuff?

> At least one report every other week won't add much to the traffic load
> on gdal-dev. 

Agreed.

> Do you think it might be embarrasing or something to disclose
> the timesheet?  That people might say "why doesn't it take this person so
> to fix such a simple bug?" or something like that?
> 

Yes, this kind of stuff, or any misuse of the information that could 
disadvantage the maintainer in his work with other clients unrelated to 
OSGeo. I know we have nothing to hide, but I just don't feel that 
disclosing that info on a public list brings any value to the community 
other than potentially hurting the contractor down the road if the 
information is misused.

Daniel
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Daniel Morissette
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