ASF on bug bounties
Matthias Kirschner
mk at fsfe.org
Fri Jun 16 14:28:41 UTC 2017
Dear Paul,
I missed your blog entry before, so thanks for your summary!
* Paul Boddie [2017-06-16 13:55 +0200]:
> The report does make valid points about the burden of security-related
> feedback on Free Software projects. Unfortunate, then, that it states this:
> "People are volunteers." While Free Software projects are typically open to
> volunteer participation, the likes of the Apache Software Foundation should be
> looking to promote and develop ways through which "people" will not be
> (unpaid) volunteers but can instead dedicate their "work time" to maintaining
> and improving Free Software.
Actually I would be very interested in the percentage of Apache
developers who do their work on a paid basis. My impression always was
that the percentage of paid developers is quite high in that area. Does
anyone of you have any insights there? Else I would ask the author.
Regards,
Matthias
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