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How are they planning to “ensure volunteer hours are used effectively” if they can’t direct those volunteers?
by pansa2 6y ago
How are they planning to “ensure volunteer hours are used effectively” if they can’t direct those volunteers?
- dragonwriter 6y agoThere is presumably some volunteer work of some kind done directly for PSF, which they can direct, but most of the Python development work isn't done that way. You can probably improve (ensure is to strong of a term) the effectiveness of outside volunteer development in a number of ways, though, such as improving community communication of priorities and improving processes around accepting, reviewing, and providing feedback on contributed code.
- bregma 6y agoThe volunteer hours are used to offer contributions. Those contributions are accepted or rejected. If you control what gets accepted or rejected, you control the definition of how the volunteer hours are used effectively in terms of the final result. Remember: "open source" has never meant anyone can get changes upstreamed. It has always only meant anyone can use the source downstream. This confusion has resulted in a lot of indignant outrage by armchair contributors.