Re: [SM-DEVEL] Re: Design inspirations....

[Paul L. <pa...@sq...>]

Daniel Watts wrote:
> 
> 
>>> Out of interest - how many man-hours would you estimate being required
>>> to get the internals and templating system done up to a standard
>>> capable of
>>> ajax like stuff?
> 
> 
>>
>> Good question, difficult to answer. It probably depends on the amount of
>> code we rewrite in order to create a better internal structure. But i
>> think with a month of 6 fulltime development we could do a lot including
>> the ajax stuff.
>>
> 
> That really doesn't seem to be so much does it? 30 days. Though I
> suppose thats 180 man days or half a man year.

Damn, I guess Erin is not invited to this party.

> So about US$15k-20k worth
> of development (or are all of you 100k/yr one-man code powerhouses)?

Somewhere on the order of US $13/hr is well below market rate here.  Not
that that wouldn't be better than the current US $0/hr we all get paid.

> Seriously though - how can money really help an open source effort? Even
> if 20k (how much actually do you think?) miraculously appeared, would
> the necessary developers realistically be able to take a month off work?

That's the question.  Some people might be.  Some can't realistically
take a month off at the drop of a hat and expect their jobs to be
waiting for them when they return.

> I bet I could raise some dosh for this if it would guarantee a slick
> AJAX interface (option) by 1st QTR 2006. Assuming cooperation from the
> squirrelmail.org website to provide a platform to raise some funds. I'm
> just not sure if it would do any good.

The SM team has not been able to get the momentum needed to decide how
donations would be handled and how they would be divided up.  It's a
sensitive topic, although I'm sure we could draw from other popular
projects that actively receive donations.  For the time being, it is
possible for anyone who has set up their SourchForge user account to
receive donations individually, but not like that's a good excuse for
the discussion we really should have if this were to move forward.

Personally, I am chomping at the bit to review the templating work and
bolster it, but time is always an issue...

 -paul