Your vote is needed to increase the pay by 50% for our mailman devops for the increased amount of work and time that has been put into it and professionalism to which the task has been undertaken. (see background)
One Vote:
1. Increase the pay to Ian Denhardt (zenhack) from $850 to $1275, which is an increase of 50% or $425.
[ ] a. Yes, increase Ian's pay for the work done. [ ] b. Do something else: ____________________________________ [ ] c. Keep the pay at the original $850 amount.
Votes:
| Board Member | 1. | | -------------------- |:--:| | Bryce Harrington | | | Josh Andler | | | Tavmjong Bah | | | Ted Gould | | | Martin Owens | | | Marc Jeanmougin | | | Chris Rogers | |
Resolved:
Background:
When the work was originally quoted, the scope of the work was thought to be at a certain level. The work has turned out to have taken more time and more effort than intended, but this has produced a much more reusable/scalable ansible installation than a single-host fixed setup would have provided.
While Ian has not requested this extra, I believe that since he is regretting his original quote we should offer a good faith improvement in terms to make sure that his good work has been properly recompensed. We are under no obligation to vote yes though.
For reference the text of the original mailman3 resolution was:
""" Your vote is needed to coordinate the Conservancy with sys-admins and rackspace to produce replacement mailing list infrastructure. This mailing list will provide us a mailman3 backend, mailman3 frontend, a forum that sits on top of the mailing list and migration from sourceforge.
The goal is for us to strike out and make this system ourselves and then invite other projects to share the machine with their own mailing lists.
1. Ask the conservancy to provide a rackspace machine instance where mailman3 and it's front end can be run for our project AND other conservancy and Free Software projects. -- Approved
2. Pay for Ian Dearheart (zenhack) to work on the mailman3 setup, providing initial setup, configuration AND migration from sourceforge. The cost of which will be $850 and be provisioned with one month of support after the completion of the working mailman migration. -- Approved
The inkscape project currently uses the sourceforge mailing list. We need to move. The mailman3 system not only provides a much better interface for us, but also provides us with usable forums. """
As an additional note, Conservancy runs their own mailman service and have offered to host our mailing lists on their HW. However, they are running an earlier version of mailman.