Hi Rich,
-----Original Message----- From: Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <general@incubator.apache.org> Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 5:44 AM To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <general@incubator.apache.org> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Whimsy PMC > > >On 04/27/2015 10:18 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote: >> I’ll note that the only person I see from infra that has been proposed >> in the current PMC is Jake Ferrel: >> >> * Acquia: Jake Farrell >> >> Someone also correct me in that I don’t think Jake is a paid infra >> contractor. >> >> In addition the way I see this is that it is no different e.g., >> >> than contributing upstream to FreeBSD or whatever - Infra contractors >> may fix something and decide it’s in the ASF’s best interests to >> contribute it upstream - same may happen for Whimsy. But to date, >> ASF infra folk that are contractors I believe are not proposed to >> be directly paid to contribute to Whimsy. Should they do so, great. >> But in the famous words of Sam Ruby let’s deal with this if there >> is an actual data point instead of hypotheticals. > > >David states in his initial email that he has a paid contractor who hase >working on Whimsy as one of his paid duties. This is not a hypothetical. > Sorry I missed that email I guess (huge shock). I’ll go try and find it. Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Chief Architect Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++