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'''Burnout:''' People are putting in unsustainable amounts of time, so projects look artificially good. | '''Burnout:''' People are putting in unsustainable amounts of time, so projects look artificially good. | ||
'''Bugs:''' [https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken- | '''Bugs:''' [https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1 Quinn Norton said it best]: everything is broken. Open source got publicity by being “slightly less broken” than the Windows and Unix systems of the 1990s—but has open source quality peaked? Bugs tend to pile up over years. | ||
'''Bias:''' We’re not using all the people we could be using, for all the things they could be doing for us.This is not just a human equal opportunity thing. We’re facing the real risk that a closed platform will provide better safety and opportunity for underrepresented demographic groups than the open web does. | '''Bias:''' We’re not using all the people we could be using, for all the things they could be doing for us.This is not just a human equal opportunity thing. We’re facing the real risk that a closed platform will provide better safety and opportunity for underrepresented demographic groups than the open web does. | ||
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The flow is relatively simple. | The flow is relatively simple. | ||
* Write and approve a proposal (here is a sample [[Proposal Outline]]) | * Write and approve a proposal (here is a sample [[Innovation/Proposal Outline]]) | ||
* [[Innovation/Experiment Setup]] | * [[Innovation/Experiment Setup]] | ||
* Run and document experiment | * Run and document experiment | ||
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* Questions that are important to Mozilla teams that do not have a project or PI in mind | * Questions that are important to Mozilla teams that do not have a project or PI in mind | ||
* Developers who want to take on a small contract project to build software needed for an experiment | |||
We will track these items and assemble complete experiments. In some cases there will be a principal investigator plus another contractor, on separate contracts. (For example, a project requiring a complex bot might have a PI focused on the codebase being developed and a bot developer/administrator working mostly in a separate bot repository.) | We will track these items and assemble complete experiments. In some cases there will be a principal investigator plus another contractor, on separate contracts. (For example, a project requiring a complex bot might have a PI focused on the codebase being developed and a bot developer/administrator working mostly in a separate bot repository.) | ||