c. Other, I think we should hire one developer for bug fixes for the 1.3 release.

Generally, I feel like we need to figure things out here and going from zero to three is probably too much for us to track and keep up with it. I'm not sure if the whole thing is a good idea or not, but I do think it is worth trying, so we should try with one developer; then evaluate; and react to that in a future release.

That brings forward the problem of selecting who that developer would be. I'd suggest that we do a short Request for Proposals with a rather high bar for applying. For instance, I'd say we should make a requirement having three accepted merge requests since the previous release. I think that'd be enough to limit to folks who do not need mentoring oversight. And since we can easily contact all the folks who'd be eligible, we can make the deadlines rather short in time.

I also mentioned that I think we need some way to evaluate the success of the program, with bug fixing in software that is very difficult. What I think we should do here is take (hopefully we'll have by then, /me crosses fingers) our members and provide them with a survey after the release. This is something we could start doing after every release in the future. But this time we should add questions like "This release is higher quality than 1.2. (disagree/agree five step)" (I think we should have others as well, but that's not quite on topic).

Dear PLC,

*Background:*

Jonathan Neuhauser (@joneuhauser at Gitlab and chat.inkscape.org) is

submitting a proposal to hire three core developers for the equivalent

of a month of work each to fix bugs and regressions during the remaining

time until the 1.3 release. This proposal has been cleared by the SFC

(Pono and Karen) and received a favorable reception during the developer

meetings. The proposal is designed such that no (micro)management /

mentoring is needed (thus only trusted core developers were considered).

As the AI project explicitly targets outside contractors, this proposal

attempts to use our funds internally.

The complete proposal is appended; it contains all the details on the

selection process, persons, objectives as well as a personal remark by

Jonathan on the impact on the project's general atmosphere.

*Proposal:*

Voting is needed on the following items:

- hiring Rafal Siejakowski, Martin Owens and Tavmjong Bah as contractors

during the bugfixing season in order to fix serious bugs before 1.3 is

released,

- allocating a total of USD 34,200 as compensation for the three

contractors.

Details on the process are lined out in the attached document.

*Ballot:*

a. Accept the above items.

b. No, cease effort for Bugfix Accelerator 2023

c. Other: ______

Best regards,

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