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On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > > You don't need my permission to do this. > > Also, I'm afraid that I don't have much time to give advice. I know *why* > the details of the suggestion are they way that they are, so if you think > they should be different, I can say what that "breaks" from the original > intent, but I can't be sure to have a good idea of what the implications of > an alternative going to be. > > The one thing I can say confidently is that a grants programme, certainly > the existing grants programme, is demonstrating that it is *not* a viable > system to convert money into people working on Perl 5 core bug fixing. > > Nicholas Clark Matt Trout and I put together the outline for how such a system would work, but both of us lost the time to actually work on creating it. If anyone is interested in taking up where we left off, please contact me offlist and I'll fill you in. --JamesThread Previous | Thread Next