A majority vote of the current board members is required for the following matter.
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.
| Board Member | 1. |
|---|---|
| Josh Andler | c |
| Tavmjong Bah | - |
| Ted Gould | c |
| Martin Owens | abstain |
| Marc Jeanmougin | a |
| Chris Rogers | a |
The resolution does not pass.
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.
