From cadfc4ea836e2a2a19f2d955e876677e28106258 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sacha Chua <sacha@sachachua.com> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 22:36:59 -0500 Subject: add some Q&A --- 2022/talks/maint.md | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to '2022/talks') diff --git a/2022/talks/maint.md b/2022/talks/maint.md index 4f4db735..1ee61a09 100644 --- a/2022/talks/maint.md +++ b/2022/talks/maint.md @@ -67,7 +67,55 @@ economics in the Emacs community, and some initial proposals that point the way forward on how, with your help, such a system might scale up to larger projects and communities far beyond open source. - +# Discussion + +## Questions and answers + +- Q: This seems to assume that there will be $ contributions + commensurate with the value of the project vs. everyone freeloading + becuase there is no incentive to pay + - A: This concept of economy will make all participants + stakeholders, so there is an incentive to pay. There are a + number of open questions, though, as this idea is new. +- Q: Are you aware of projects like OpenQ (<https://www.openq.dev/>)? + Would that fit the model in your opinion? + - A: not familiar with OpenQ +- Q: I see incredible amounts of overlap with the SourceCred system + <https://sourcecred.io/> , where attribution of antecedents, graph + of contributions, fair-in-hindsight backpropogation is built-in. Are + you aware of SourceCred? + - A: not very familiar with it +- Q: How is this different from money? Not in some abstract ownership + vs attribution way. Open source funding is an incentive problem, + which this does not change as far as I can see. + - A: money can be revisited in the future but maybe not + immediately. +- Q: How would you approach a viable experiment? + - A: we have a Github Action that automatically creates the + boilerplate of files and directories needed for the accounting. + Further development through dialog because of the many questions + open +- Q: Given that the oversight is a social process, how do you + constrain the cognitive and time burdens of deciding the values of + attributed contributions? + - A: we start with simple heuristics and first tackle the majority + of issues +- Q: How are the attribution amounts calculated? (ORGA NOTE: restored + from a prior version; welcome to remove if this was your question + and you removed it intentionally) + - A: +- Q: What are your assumptions about human nature vis. self interest + vs. altruism? + - A: +- Q: URL of the project? + - A: <https://github.com/drym-org/foundation> + - <https://github.com/drym-org/old-abe> + +## Feedback + +- Thanks. Love your license. +- cue up a marxist analysis, and then shut down the proletariat? :D +- If I was being told that this man is one of Protesilaos' long lost siblings, I would believe it. [[!inline pages="internal(2022/info/maint-after)" raw="yes"]] -- cgit v1.2.3