Re: Bug Resilience Program of German Sovereign Tech Fund
Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Fri, 7 Jun 2024 14:44:59 -0700
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general,gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.general |
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| Organization | UCLA Computer Science Department |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 6/6/24 15:20, Christoph Grüninger wrote: > I think we should apply for the Bug Resilience Program with their Direct > Contributions option. This is not funding, rather a company is hired to > do the mentioned things. It is easier to apply for and if granted should > improve the situation. Would it be a cost-effective? There are maybe ten people in the world who have current expertise to work on Automake development, all of them are busy, and unless I'm missing something none of these people work for the company in question. Although the previous sentence (including that "ten") is just my guess, I hope the point is clear. A worry is that (unless the resources we're talking about are substantial) most of the effort spent by the company will go toward training employees, and only a fraction will go toward actually improving the bug resilience of Automake and/or Autoconf.