On 6/6/24 15:20, Christoph Grüninger wrote:
I think we should apply for the Bug Resilience Program with their Direct
Contributions option. This is not funding, rather a company is hired to
do the mentioned things. It is easier to apply for and if granted should
improve the situation.
Would it be a cost-effective? There are maybe ten people in the world
who have current expertise to work on Automake development, all of them
are busy, and unless I'm missing something none of these people work for
the company in question.
Although the previous sentence (including that "ten") is just my guess,
I hope the point is clear. A worry is that (unless the resources we're
talking about are substantial) most of the effort spent by the company
will go toward training employees, and only a fraction will go toward
actually improving the bug resilience of Automake and/or Autoconf.
