[haiku-inc] Re: Contract proposal: website & R1B1 work
- From: Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Public Haiku-inc List <haiku-inc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 11:36:59 -0700
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.
I haven't commented on this yet... mostly because I've been busy, but
partly because I expected others to chime in first.
Since there hasn't been much discussion, I'll throw my two cents in:
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.
Somehwat off-topic, but on the Cloudfare topic - if their free option
isn't enough for us, I don't think its worth pursuing. An additional
$25/mo is quite a bit considering we're only spending ~50EUR/mo on our
infrastructure costs as it is. As it currently stands, Hetzner seems
to have some poor peering with non-European countries - so perhaps
it's best to start looking for server host that better serves the
global market. If the real concern is for package distribution, I
recommend we setup a set of mirrors to help us with that (we already
have a reasonable number of existing mirrors willing to host for us,
we just need to plan accordingly). Cloudflare's policies prevent using
their system for archive/file distribution anyway - and this is where
I see the real issue cropping up in the future as we approach R1B1.
Anyhow, as I mentioned - I don't believe development contracts should
be used to fund infrastructure improvements at this point.
- Urias
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