On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:47 PM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Gregory Kohs thekohser@gmail.com
wrote:
Let me recommend something. Pay Anthony Dipierro the sum of $5,500,
give
him server access, give him eight weeks, and if he doesn't produce a
full
history dump of the English Wikipedia, then perhaps his penance could be
a
one-year ban from Wikimedia mailing lists?
That's a bit presumptuous of you, Greg.
I don't know the background of this, so I don't understand why this would be presumptuous of Greg.
I never said I could do this in eight weeks, I never offered a "penance" of a one-year ban if I fail, and I certainly never committed to 40 hours a week. The penance especially doesn't make sense. The WMF can ban me for free if they want to.
While Gregs recommendation to have WMF grant to develop certain
functionality, I would prefer that WMF offers bounties.
It's not clear to me how a bounty for developing functionality would work, especially not for something complicated like fixing the dump system. A contracted out service as opposed to a per-hour rate, sure. But a bounty?
I've just noticed that bounties are mentioned on this strategy proposal.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/strategy/wiki/ Proposal:Track_bugs_in_other_projects_impeding_our_progress
A bug bounty is generally given for finding a bug, not for fixing it.