[devel at bb.net] MOSS Application

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

Let's talk about this at 16:30UTC tomorrow (in about 13 hours) at the
weekly meeting in #buildbot.  Come one, come all!

Dustin

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 12:04 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at buildbot.net> wrote:
> I think I can safely say we don't need more hardware -- we are finally
> using most of the hardware we have, but there's plenty of capacity
> remaining.  We also have funds remaining to buy a Mac Mini.
>
> Our only periodic cost is for the domain name.  I'm currently paying
> for that (it just renews with my others).  It wouldn't be a bad idea
> to start transferring that so that SFC pays for it, in case I'm hit by
> a bus, but that's a separate conversation.
>
> Recruiting people, and then supervising them, pose the problems with
> paying for development work.  When we tried this before, the available
> funds were a little low - basically enough for piecework, which leaves
> a burden on someone else to define the piece, measure progress, and so
> on.  Given enough funding, perhaps we could pay someone for, say, 10
> hours of work per week on an ongoing basis, with the expectation that
> they will perform basic project maintenance (bug wrangling, debugging,
> review, making releases, metabuildbot upkeep, etc.) and spend the
> remaining time hacking on the highest-priority bugs.  One thing we
> have now that we didn't before is the weekly meeting -- that would be
> a good time for such a person to check in with the project, so their
> work is visible and we can make an honest evaluation of whether we're
> getting a fair deal.
>
> Dustin
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Vasily <just.one.man at yandex.ru> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm under impression that Buildbot lacks enough love for Windows - maybe
>> that should be the point of application?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vasily
>>
>> 30 окт. 2015 г. 22:08 пользователь "Bill Deegan" <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
>> написал:
>>
>>> Questions to the community:
>>> 1) Do we need any hardware?
>>> 2) Do we need to cover any monthly costs?
>>> 3) Are there any features/development/audits which would be worth paying
>>> for (assuming we can get a grant from Mozilla)
>>> 4) Any other uses of grant money for the project? (Beside buildbot Ferrari
>>> or Helicopter)?
>>>
>>> -Bill
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at buildbot.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Applications are open now:
>>>>
>>>>   https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.moss/fnHhVzNCnNk
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at buildbot.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Bill mentioned he's willing to take the lead on putting together an
>>>> > application to Mozilla's open-source program,
>>>> > https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS
>>>> >
>>>> > And he jumped right to two good questions:
>>>> >
>>>> > 1) How much do we want?
>>>> > 2) What will that produce?
>>>> >
>>>> > What do you think?  I don't have good answers for these questions (and
>>>> > I also want to stay out of this particular project since I'm a Mozilla
>>>> > employee).
>>>> >
>>>> > Dustin
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