[haiku-inc] Re: Contract proposal: website & R1B1 work

  • From: "Adrien Destugues" <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-inc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 07:29:57 +0000

6 mai 2015 20:34 "Urias McCullough" <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit:

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Augustin Cavalier
<waddlesplash@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I briefly exchanged messages with Ryan Leavengood a few weeks ago about
working for Haiku as a paid contract developer this summer. I propose to
spend a minimum of 240 hours across 6 weeks for $2000 USD working on getting
the website moved towards Drupal 8 and also on tickets in / related to R1B1.

Personally I don't see much value in paying for website infrastructure
work at this point. If we were producing a web service for our users,
that would be different, but we aren't. As such, I think we can
probably continue to improve the website and infrastructure with
volunteer effort at this point.

I would focus our development contracts on... actual development. To
that end, I would only consider the work towards releasing R1B1
relevant for contract work.

Anyhow, as I mentioned - I don't believe development contracts should
be used to fund infrastructure improvements at this point.

It could be useful to have someone work on the "infrastructure" side of things
for the B1 release, still. Not the website, but the package build and upload
system to automate the repository management.

Keeping packages up to date in the repository is taking some time, and is done
by Haiku developers. By finishing the work on automating this, using either
buildbot or Kallisti5's haikeuken, we would free the devs from managing this,
increase the number of packages available in the depot, and identify more
problems with the recipes at haikuports.

None of the Haiku devs are currently working on this and it is one of the
strongest blockers for Beta1.

I don't know if waddlesplash is willing to work on this, however :)

--
Adrien.

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