On Sun, 2021-04-18 at 11:45 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
I love that we're encouraging bartering. 😉
I'm a little uncomfortable saying that the main fund doesn't respond to user needs, because while they don't realize it, things like paying for the trademark does provide value to users. Just no one asks for that. What would you think about:
"Because of the way Inkscape is developed, the main charity fund is used for infrastructure and general project needs instead of feature requests or specific user concerns. Contributors themselves can help users privately to achieve modifications and improvements that are desired through direct funding or even bartering."
I feel like that says what it does do more than what it doesn't. Thoughts? (I don't love the word "desired" but I can't find a better one)
To replace the whole paragraph, I could just say:
"""Because of the way Inkscape is developed, the main charity fund is used for infrastructure and general project needs instead of feature requests or specific user concerns. Contributors themselves can help users privately to achieve modifications and improvements that are desired through: collective funding, contracting or even bartering. This page lists the people who offer these kinds of services."""
Good points. For inactive contributors, I think we've got a plan for that generally as we have new plans on how to identify contributors. So we don't need another mechanism to do that. We haven't discussed anything with a CoC violation, but I think that someone should be removed from active contributor status if they violate it. I'm feeling like we should save this debate for when we flesh out exact wording there, but I'm all for a mechanism to remove "active contributor" status for those who violate the CoC (lots of details to work out). But I'm feeling like where we're going with "active contributor" deals with Patrick's concerns on the list as to be on the list you'd have to be an active contributor.
That's a good point. We can organise that as part of our other organisational protocol.
I've refactored that last paragraph to be more generic:
""" # Who can be added or removed from this list?
The list is meant as a sort of business index of people providing services. Active contributors can be added to the list and if contributors stop being active contributors to the project, then they may be removed from the list. Please contact us if you wish to be listed or believe someone is no longer active to keep this list clean. """
Best Regards, Martin Owens