Taken off-list, as suggested.
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Richard Foley
Ciao - shorter than aufwiedersehen
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On Thursday 05 November 2009 12:00:44 James Laver wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> >
> > You don't need my permission to do this.
> >
> > Also, I'm afraid that I don't have much time to give advice. I know *why*
> > the details of the suggestion are they way that they are, so if you think
> > they should be different, I can say what that "breaks" from the original
> > intent, but I can't be sure to have a good idea of what the implications
of
> > an alternative going to be.
> >
> > The one thing I can say confidently is that a grants programme, certainly
> > the existing grants programme, is demonstrating that it is *not* a viable
> > system to convert money into people working on Perl 5 core bug fixing.
> >
> > Nicholas Clark
>
> Matt Trout and I put together the outline for how such a system would
> work, but both of us lost the time to actually work on creating it.
>
> If anyone is interested in taking up where we left off, please contact
> me offlist and I'll fill you in.
>
> --James
> 
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