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Steve is paid to write docs; evangelizing is just his hobby. Sibling comments to yours corrected this point prior to you making this comment, which makes it ha
by tatterdemalion 10y ago
Steve is paid to write docs; evangelizing is just his hobby.
Sibling comments to yours corrected this point prior to you making this comment, which makes it harder to assume good faith about your actions here.
- lacampbell 10y agoThe part quoted heavily implied that he was paid to evangelize. Yet he was heavily down-voted for saying something relatively innocuous. I thought it was noteworthy.
- tatterdemalion 10y agoWhat makes you and thesmallestcat even more incorrect is that this blog post is about Steve Klabnik and Yehuda Katz joining the Rust core team. This is an unpaid position with the (informally organized) Rust project, not a paid position with Mozilla Research. Mozilla employs Steve (though I think it was just a part time contract in 2014), but doesn't employ Yehuda.
- Manishearth 10y agoThe "Rust Core Team" is not a Mozilla construct. Many of the folks on it are Mozilla employees, but the core team is not a paying job. Mozilla hired Steve to work on docs. Steve was invited to the Rust Core Team because of his online activities, among other things. Neither wycats nor steve were being paid by Mozilla at the point that post was written IIRC. (I might be getting my timelines mixed up here. wycats has contracted for mozilla in the past for cargo and stuff, but I don't recall exactly when that happened)
- steveklabnik 10y agoTo reply to both of you at once, I was near the end of my first contract with Mozilla to write docs full-time when I was added to the core team; I then got a second contract, and finally, a "real job." (I had to look this up in my email to remember myself, frankly.)
- pcwalton 10y agoNobody gets a paycheck for being on the Rust core team.