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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/4/2018 9:55 AM, Petr Viktorin
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:baaab3a3-02cf-cb6c-2f99-89e33d102899@gmail.com">On
10/4/18 9:34 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">Hi,
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If IBM wants a better Python support, it would help a lot if IBM
pays for this development.</blockquote>
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I agree. If IBM ...<br>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:baaab3a3-02cf-cb6c-2f99-89e33d102899@gmail.com">
<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;"> ... Antoine
Pitrou has been paid in the past to enhance Python support in
Solaris and it worked well.
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FYI - as I now have access to the gccfarm, and in the spirit of more
generalized "posix" additions I looked for an HPUX and a Solais
system to build master on.<br>
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make test never finished (one test was still hanging after over 20
minutes, and I had to go. Of the 419, 17 or 18 had failed. Roughly
where AIX plus xlc was at last July without my PRs for tests.<br>
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So, while it worked - money stopped and Solaris is in no better
numerical shape (test wise) than AIX.<br>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:baaab3a3-02cf-cb6c-2f99-89e33d102899@gmail.com">Michael
explicitly said this is a personal effort. IBM or other big money
is not involved.
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IBM is my employer. As I am not a developer (merely a systems and
management consultant) I do not face losing my job by working on
OSS. I have been called off certain OSS projects because IBM was
providing money and/or developers. This is one of the reasons (being
called off elsewhere) that I have been hesitant to be more involved
than I was in 2015-2017.<br>
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So, let me be explicit - I can only speak for myself. And as long as
no manager says "No, cannot work on that" I have given a commitment
to work on this. "Some things cannot be bought" - such as un-biased
(I call it "maverick" rather than merely independent.) On the one
hand IBM policy is to encourage independent thought. The core goal
is to help customers succeed. But individual managers up and down
the line occasionally have additional business needs, and then
workers as myself apologize and take a step back - in a word -
adjust.<br>
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Short answer: my involvement is mine to give at no price. I am
considered one of the worlds AIX experts on matters of integration,
performance and security.<br>
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So, I have just simple questions for you? Do you value my expertise?
May I assist?<br>
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cite="mid:baaab3a3-02cf-cb6c-2f99-89e33d102899@gmail.com">
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Is paying the best way to get features into Python? Does becoming
a core dev mean you can now get paid for approving changes? Some
of the implications are quite disturbing <span
class="moz-smiley-s2" title=":("><span>:(</span></span>
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