I'm confident that there's an enormous benefit to the project even if we only hired an external contractors, and the second vote failed for some reason. We have multiple contributors who've offered to review and advise them. If we made that happen, it would lift a huge weight off the shoulders of our volunteers.

Hello,

Ah, yes, we discussed needing to split it. My concern was that it would meant that anyone on the GTK expert committee would be unable apply for the Inkscape Expert position. I think that the conversation with Pono said that wasn't the case. Which is good.

Since that isn't a problem I think it would make sense to keep them together. While I don't think it would happen, if we believe that they should be connected, putting them in different votes would have the possibility of one passing and one not. Which would be bad.

Ted

On Mar 16 2023, at 11:35 am, Jonathan Neuhauser <jonathan.neuhauser@outlook.com> wrote:

Hi Ted,

You suggested yesterday to split the proposal into two parts. I've followed the suggestion. That's part one, and I'd like to get started with the job posting soon since it'll take some time for applications to come in and interviews to happen. That's why a vote should happen soon.

For the internal partner: I expect the selection process to be much faster (we've essentially already conducted that). So there's no hurry here, and they could still start roughly at the same time.

Jonathan

Am 16.03.23 um 11:14 schrieb Ted Gould:

Hello Janathan,

Thanks for the work on the proposal. I thought we'd talked a bit about how the Inkscape expert was going to be chosen as well, it seems like the document you've attached only talks about the selection process for the GTK expert would be selected. I think that we probably need a process for both of those.

Ted

On Mar 15 2023, at 6:31 pm, Jonathan Neuhauser <jonathan.neuhauser@outlook.com> wrote:

Dear PLC members,

in the recent developer meetings, the dev team has formulated a plan to

get the GTK4 migration done.

This migration is essential for Inkscape, central to our infrastructure,

needs to be done quickly (to reduce blockage of other work) and soon.

For this reason, we propose hiring an external contractor, a senior

developer with expert knowledge on GTK, for a duration of 4 months.

I've attached the proposal for that, feedback is welcome. We're planning

to start the vote soon, probably on Friday, since a lot of the

discussions have already happened at the hackfest.

Best regards,

Jonathan

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