On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
The CentOS Project can not afford to hire and pay someone a full salary to do nothing but CentOS full time. If the project could do that, then they would. But, if they did hire said person, then what would the OTHER volunteer guys do? Why would they stay around if "Billy Bob" is getting paid for his work?
That can change provided the core team wants it to. AFAIK, perhaps the team wants to remain volunteers. AFAIK, the team would like to leave their job$ and become full time CentOS folks. I dunno which and it may vary with team member.
If we could hire 3 or 4 people (and provide any kind of reasonable job security for their future), that might be an option. Otherwise I think injecting a limited amount of cash into the process just produces hurt feelings and degrades, not improves, the process.
That is just one thought ...
Is there an URL which describes what the CentOS team is in most need of? e.g., the fastest build server known to man ? e.g., monies to send to RedHat for licenses? yada 3, ..., yada n.
kind regards/ldv