On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 4:41 PM Adi Roiban <adi@roiban.ro> wrote:
Hi,
I started a separate discussion to confirm the goal for a future fundraising.
Top priority - Pay someone to help with the review queue Nice to have - Move server/services to Azure VM - We have at least $100 monthly allowance for Azure.... not sure if we still have the huge $2000 allowance on rackspace. Nice to have - Migrate Trac wiki to GitHub Wiki Nice to have - Migrate Trac Ticket to GitHub Issues
I have a suggestion for another priority to be inserted above that top priority - pay someone to look after the day-to-day logistics of the project. For example: to triage tickets in the issue tracker (identify duplicates to avoid redundant effort, classify issues by feature request vs defect vs regression, etc), keep track of the release process so releases are completed in a timely manner, identify and eliminate friction in the development process, and identify big-picture directions / priorities / roadmap items and track and coordinate efforts to achieve them. I don't think someone could be hired to set the Twisted roadmap but someone could be hired to solicit this information from core developers and the wider community and organize it into a coherent plan. Ideally this person could also look after fundraising efforts to ensure that there are funds to continue to support their other activities. Helping with the review queue is great but it's a purely reactive activity. This is fine so far as it goes but it leaves the project without a coherent direction, which in turn makes less productive use of the resources available. The project should continue to operate reactively to address issues raised by the community but to really stay relevant, the core Twisted team itself also needs to identify coherent future goals and work to achieve them. Messing with CI configuration, wikis, issue tracking, etc, may also all be beneficial but they're not useful goals in themselves - they should all be in support of a goal like reducing operational overhead to allow resources to be directed elsewhere or removing roadblocks that stand in the way of other contributors having an impact. Jean-Paul
That is all..but first we should solve the release queue. Cheers -- Adi Roiban _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com https://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python