Dear PLC,

this is a vote to extend Daniel Boles' contract for another two months
(320 hours) and allocate additional budget at the request of the
development team.

Background:

- Daniel was originally hired for the GTK4 migration. This is making
good progress: as of now, the development team estimates that a first
version of Inkscape that builds with GTK4 will be available around the
time his current contract ends.
- By all accounts, the progress has been very steady, also including
general code cleanups which however did not distract him from his main
task. We were impressed by his knowledge, speed, and contribution
quality. By now, Daniel has 174 MRs merged.
- However, there are will be no more hours to spend for debugging,
fixing regressions, and upstream bugs. Daniel now has in-depth knowledge
of Inkscape's codebase as well as his GTK4 expertise. He would be a very
valuable asset going forward, so we feel it would be great to have him
available for some additional time.
- He has expressed interest to take on a permanent position somewhere
and in that case would finish the contract part-time. This might be an
even better deal for us, as he can take on a "consultant / technical
support" role, on an as-needed basis, e.g. fixing difficult bugs and
helping other contributors to move their work to GTK4. This is possible
under the terms of his (current) contract: it allows to submit invoices
over the course of a year, for a total of 320 hours. The same model
would apply to the extension of his contract.
- If he - which we currently don't expect - runs out of work related to
GTK4, there's enough other technical debt that he can work on.

Ballot:

a) Extend Daniel Boles' contract for another two months (320 hours)
under the same conditions as his previous contracts; the work items will
be (ordered by priority, as time permits)
- finishing the GTK4 migration,
- fix regressions in the GTK4 build of Inkscape, including upstream work,
- assist other contributors in updating their work for GTK4 if requested,
- work on other technical debt in the Inkscape codebase
and allocate $16,000 for his compensation.

b) Don't extend Daniel Boles' contract.

c) Other: ______

Best regards,
Jonathan
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