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Mark MayoWant to work on Mastodon full time? I’d like to pay a Rails dev for the next 3+ months to implement some auth improvements that matter to me but also just burn down bugs, make perf improvements, whatever is needed as this place grows. Remote 100% ok but ideally need 1+ hrs of Pacific time zone overlap, 3+hrs of GMT overlap, fair pay, meaningful work. [edit: email [email protected] to discuss more] #fedihire #ruby #rails #job
supplying one more clarifying detail, we're working on a client app as well and the dev, who is terrific, is in GMT timezone, so I can shift the timezone focus east so that there's more overlap with GMT. Could be that EST timezone is where the most collaboration time would happen.
was wholly unprepared for the level of interest - email [info at moth.social] if you are interested. thanks very much!!
dria 
Sundazed
Juan Luis@mmayo Honest question: do you have merge rights on Mastodon? If not, how will you ensure that the contributions are merged? Is there agreement from the Mastodon core team about those issues already?
In my experience, pouring time/money to an open source project doesn't do magic. It requires consensus building, a good relationship with the maintainers, and some patience.
Brian Campbell@astrojuanlu @mmayo You don't need to have merge rights to make valuable contributions.
Sure, in some cases @Gargron might not accept contributions, but the same is true of paid contributor to lots of other major open source projects; there are lots of folks who do kernel work full time, who have patch series rejected and need to either rewrite or drop it.
Even if patches aren't accepted upstream, they may be accepted for local forks or widely used forks like glitch-soc.
@unlambda @astrojuanlu @Gargron I'm with @unlambda this is open source, changes might be interesting upstream or they might not be that's ok.
@unlambda @astrojuanlu @Gargron and to be clear, I also agree with the "there is no magic" conclusion. :) I've had a hand in several open source projects, so I definitely understand the overall dynamics but also know that the best way to start is with working code that solves specific problems I need solving. sometimes those are broadly useful to others, often they're not.
@astrojuanlu @unlambda @Gargron yes thank you that's an excellent clarification worth noting here. and for further clarity I'm particularly interesting in exploring a few optimized onboarding flows for new users. Tangentially, if there was a current Mastodon core dev that could benefit from sponsorship that would be cool, but I'm not assuming that is all the same job/person/thing. :)
Michael Downey 
"Some cases" ... you must be new here 😂
@downey Eh, I've had a 100% MR acceptance rate (1/1 MRs), so I may be a bit biased. 😉
Honestly though, I'm familiar with folks' complaints about patches not being accepted, but I also think that we're likely to be hitting the "Gargron doesn't scale" point here which means that he'll need to take on some more maintainers, like Linus did when he couldn't keep up with the merge load individually, or we'll see more instance moving to faster-moving forks like glitch-soc.
@downey Heh, and by MR I mean PR. I use GitLab at dayjob so I've gotten used to saying MR.
Nathan Wray@astrojuanlu maybe a better question is, does the person he hires have merge rights
@wren The person doing the work doesn't need to be the one merging the work, IMO
@astrojuanlu That's fair. I do like the idea of helping to fund someone who is already a committer, if there is room for that.
@wren @astrojuanlu I’m certainly open to that but certainly am not assuming that’s the kind of help anyone actually needs.
Chema Hernández GilThanks for doing this. Will they work on allowing hardware security keys for 2FA? That would be swell.
John Carter
Mistial Developer
psyBunny 🐰@mmayo sticking with old roby on rails? Move to node or other modern languages/framework.
Adam Lassek
Mark Rigby@mmayo 30 years in programming and I have none of the skills necessary for this.
Poop.
robotreader@mmayo hey, I’m a rails/ ruby dev looking for some temp work. You can check my resume at sdubinsky.com/resume
Bart Decrem@sdubinsky quick chat? I’m bdecrem on g mail (I work w mark)
@Bartd hey, just saw this. Are you available in the next couple hours? Otherwise I’m free 3-6 pm gmt+1 this week.
@sdubinsky this app is not great for dm stuff. Can you shoot me an email pls at the email I provided in the thread?
@Bartd will do
Kevin@mmayo Software contractor with 13 years of Rails experience here. Happy to help, let's chat!
eL_ABC
Boris MannGreat!
@blaine has some thoughts related to auth and identities too.
Ping us when you’ve got something written up.
And come out this #Vancouver #DWeb social we’re putting together https://lu.ma/van-dweb-social
JTYo
Dani diddled the union 🏳️⚧️@mmayo I’d love to do this but I know absolutely zero Rudy and zero rails specialism 😭😭😭
Simon Coles@mmayo I'd like to do the same, although I need GMT overlap. Hope someone notices this and perhaps we can share notes.
Adam Burck@adamburck @JPEGuin excellent idea, thx!
David Sterry@mmayo If you're concerned about merging upstream, this is part of the reason the Ecko fork was created. We're operating by C4 protocol which means we merge all code that's addressing valid problems as defined through community consensus.
Basically we discuss problems in our issue tracker and merge as long as the PR is aimed at one of the proven problems.
My bio has links. Open to questions from any and all.
@weex good to know, thanks!
frater mus@mmayo Burn Down Bugs should be the name of an indie band
@mmayo let’s do this!!
Cassey Lottman@cassey possibly, yes. I'll take a look, thanks for reaching out!
ricardo 
Sksksjs
Robert Riemann 🇪🇺To all those that have ideas how to make the #fediverse better with a dev profile and existing open source experience with residence in the EU: you are likely eligible for some EU #funding: https://nlnet.nl/entrust/
Airframes
Kevin@airframes @mmayo I’m a long time Rails dev (and other things). Recently interested in Mastodon and running airwaves.social. Could consider it.
@airframes @mmayo But definitely not full time.