[Mageia-dev] what is this ????

Wolfgang Bornath molch.b at googlemail.com
Sat Nov 24 16:41:36 CET 2012


2012/11/24 Johnny A. Solbu <cooker at solbu.net>:
> On Saturday 24. November 2012 12.58, PhilippeDidier wrote:
>> Someone want to be paid for his work on Mageia !!!!
>
> I have no problems with people working on mageia for money, as long as they adhere to our rules. If this results in more bugs being fixed, then we are benefitting from it.
> Many of the kernel hackers are paid by their employers to work on the kernel. Others are paid to work with a distribution. This is not new.
>
>> Such a page might need an agreement before being published ...
>> don't you think so ?
>
> I think so, yes.
> The current page implies that this is a Mageia project.
> I have no problem with the content itself. But the content of that page belongs on the authors webpage, not on the Mageia wiki.
>
> The page should be deleted.

Well, actually I think the page needs some editing. As it is now it
may give wrong ideas (as we see in this thread).

What the page really says is that if Mageia does not offer any
solution for a given bug because of lack of time or lack of interest
by the developers a user is able to address the developers with a
financial offer like "fix this bug and I would pay 50 EuroCents."
What the page does not say: it is not an advertisement of one or more
Mageia developers offering paid service. It is merely a text telling
the users that in a certain case this option is possible - keeping in
mind that the resulting fix will still be free for all Mageia users to
use.

So, IMO the offer is something similar to Ubuntu's offer to be able to
donate to a single project inside the distribution. With a better
phrasing the page may be ok. Of course the details should be discussed
in public and after that the option should be advertized in a blog.

-- 
wobo


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