On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:47 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Anthony
<wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Gregory Kohs
<thekohser(a)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.