On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 11:11:52AM +0200, Vít Ondruch wrote:
I see one more trend nobody is really talking about.
Once there appears somebody brilliant in community, sooner or later Red
Hat hires him. Unfortunately, this rarely means that the person keeps
their independence. This also means that later we are missing the "pure"
community. May be Fedora should sponsor some volunteers to do some work,
without Red Hat hiring them.
Yeah, man, it was horrible when Red Hat hired me to work on Fedora full
time, I'm sure I lost my independence right away, but I sure have
(mostly) enjoyed it. :)
As far as I can tell the clause in the Red Hat business
ethics document still applies:
"Participation in an open source community project, whether maintained by the Company
or by
another commercial or non-commercial entity or organization, does not constitute a
conflict of
interest even where you may make a determination in the interest of the project that is
adverse to
the Company’s interests."
Also, for project such as Pagure, I don't think we benefit enough
from
programs such as GSoC. I'm not saying that we don't do this and of
course such participants needs mentors etc ...
Perhaps, but those projects often do shiny new development rather than
needed reworking or day to day maintaining.
kevin