[mapserver-dev] Call for Project Budget Ideas

[Daniel Morissette]

Two more ideas of non-sexy tasks that are important to the project but 
hard to fund otherwise:

- Release manager role support: A fixed amount (e.g. 2k$?) set aside for 
each major release to fund the release manager work for the initial 
release and the point/bugfix releases, with the understanding that this 
does not cover all the time/work involved in managing a release, so this 
should be treated as a way to support the release manager's contribution 
and not as a way to add more pressure on them.

- Security fixes emergency fund: when a security vulnerability is 
reported, we need to react quickly and we don't have time to start 
discussing budget. Someone's got to take the lead and address it as 
quickly as possible. This emergency fund could possibly help prioritize 
someone's time to deal with the vulnerability and coordinate with the 
release manager for a release, etc.  Hard to tell how much to set aside 
for this since we never know in advance if/when vulnerabilities will be 
reported... we just need to be ready to react.

Daniel

On 2020-01-10 10:51, Steve Lime wrote:
> Hi all: We have opportunities to fund activities - albeit at a 
> relatively low level - for the benefit of the project. I'd like to ask 
> folks to submit investment ideas in order to develop a project budget. 
> At a minimum we would submit a request to OSGeo for a modest amount of 
> funding. A couple ideas kicked around at the recent PSC meeting were:
> 
>   * Stipends to fund attendance for a few developers to the OSGeo Code
>     Sprint in Athens. For example, three $500.00 travel stipends.
>   * Funding to develop an RFC to institutionalize OGC/CITE compliance
>     testing.
> 
> Other ideas? Please send 'em along and I'll collect and summarize them.
> 
> --Steve
> 
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