Re: sponsored vs volunteers

[Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Rahul Sundaram (sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said:
> > > In a simplied form: Whether you are paid to do some work in Fedora 
> > > or not.
> >
> > Even if someone is paid to work on some part of Fedora, that doesn't 
> > mean
> > they're paid for all their contributions to Fedora. For example, I don't
> > *think* that Red Hat is explicitly paying Jens to maintain Haskell 
> > bindings
> > for Gtk+.
>
> This is precisely why having a field with this information per package 
> in the package database is useful.

This sounds like bloat to me.  While this is something we could do, is 
it really something we should?

   -Mike