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Taken off-list, as suggested. -- Richard Foley Ciao - shorter than aufwiedersehen http://www.rfi.net/ On Thursday 05 November 2009 12:00:44 James Laver wrote: > 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. > > --James >Thread Previous | Thread Next