[Libre-soc-dev] RFPs for NLNet tasks

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 5:09 PM Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 06:13 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
> wrote:

> > jacob the one bug not on the page is the pia one.
> >
>
> Thanks!
>
> One thing that you probably want to fix: I found the amount of formatting
> variation to make how much each person gets quite confusing, I'd suggest
> changing it to something like this made up example, where it's totally
> obvious who gets what and what fraction they have:

i was wondering about this.

> * https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12345 Example Task Name
>     * Total: 200 EUR
>     * lkcl: 100 EUR -- 1/2 of total
>     * programmerjake: 25 EUR -- 1/8 of total
>     * mnolan: 75 EUR -- 3/8 of total
>
> * https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54321 Other Example Task Name
>     * Total: 200 EUR
>     * lkcl: 200 EUR -- all of total
>
> I might add a .md parser to the financial tracking script to check
> consistency with bugzilla.

ah good idea

> Also, we could add fields to bugzilla to track who gets paid what from each
> bug, avoiding the need to parse free-form english. If we did that, we could
> auto-update the .md files for each person, where we instead send an email
> to the mailing list if updating failed because we couldn't parse it, or we
> weren't 100% sure the update would be correct.

much better idea.

l.