On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Ish Sookun <ish_at_hacklog.in> wrote:
> 2015-03-21 10:51 GMT+04:00 Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden_at_gmail.com>:
>>
>>
>> That would be a contractual agreement. Once I'm done writing the
>> plugin, I would move to another project. You can't expect a contractor
>> to be held responsible once the product is shipped, because of some
>> bug that later turned out to be a security vulnerability. If such is
>> the case, and at the same time, I'm getting a better contract with
>> another client, then, I would go work where there is more money, and
>> choose the other contract.
>
>
> Not a bug, let's say a backdoor as you mentioned previously. What will be
> your stand then?
Same stand. We need employees who will need to explain themselves as
to how a backdoor was found.
With a contractor, I cannot ask him to explain himself once the
contract is over.
>
>>
>> However, when a person is an employee, he will have to answer later
>> on. That's what we are looking for here: a structure put in place
>> where the employee(s) work full-time, drive the project, and maintain
>> it. We don't want changing sub-contractors after each feature
>> request/major rewrite, and be left with legacy code, and layers and
>> layers of code added on by later developers who have no clue what the
>> previous developer did.
>
>
> Wait. You have been mentioning the word "employee" several times while I
> offered SM my "help" to write a proposal and clarified I am not available to
> "work" for free however. SM in an earlier email expressed that he understood
> what I meant by the words "help" and "work".
>
> Did you understand the use of those words?
>
Sure, you can talk to SM about your ideas. However, at the end of the
day, we *need* a project owner to finalise the design, drive it, and
maintain it.
>>
>> For the new .mu to be successful in the long term, we need employees
>> who will commit themselves in the long term, and lay down a strong
>> foundation and a well-executed growth plan.
>
>
> Can you force your employees to be dedicated and committed? How do you
> ensure they will be?
> Do you propose SM to be an employee? Employed by whom?
Yes, we can approach SM to be an employee.
We need to put a structure in place to support that employee. There
should be a non-profit organization to formalise and support the
process.
The question now is who will fund this organization.
>
> Regards,
> Ish Sookun
>
> - Geek by birth, Linux by choice.
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