To put in context, if you read back in her recent feed - she's had some substantial health issues that limit the amount of time sitting up works (especially the last few weeks) again. This obviously can lead to boredom for all sorts of reasons that are not connected to what one does with one's time in better circumstances.
I do not have the brains to find the relevant posts (I believe either in dw_news or dw_biz), but D has talked in the past about how one of the ways they make the DW finances work is that both her job and Mark's for DW are part-time (Mark has another full-time job, and has had for basically the entire project, D's is limited by long-term health issues, and includes the business admin stuff which is necessary but almost entirely invisible to users.)
There are other paid employees, but with specific tasks - partly to make sure there's always a backup for security issues or other urgent needs. (And I think right now also all part time though I might be wrong there.)
And then there's the part about which parts of what could use some time a given person can do: D is not primarily a coder. DW as a project is still fighting a tremendous amount of technical debt, and there is ongoing long-term work about that, but it takes people with a specific set of skills to do some of it. (Especially since some of it involves things that were very specific to LiveJournal or that are no longer in common use.)
Some things, like two factor, I know D's talked (again, one of those two communities) about having both technical issues (figuring out how to integrate with the code) and other factors (what information that would mean DW would need to have about users, whether that information could then be demanded by governments, etc.) that are not just as simple as making the code go.
More importantly, none of that is very new, in terms of structure, from 3 years ago or 5 years ago, or even 8.
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I do not have the brains to find the relevant posts (I believe either in dw_news or dw_biz), but D has talked in the past about how one of the ways they make the DW finances work is that both her job and Mark's for DW are part-time (Mark has another full-time job, and has had for basically the entire project, D's is limited by long-term health issues, and includes the business admin stuff which is necessary but almost entirely invisible to users.)
There are other paid employees, but with specific tasks - partly to make sure there's always a backup for security issues or other urgent needs. (And I think right now also all part time though I might be wrong there.)
And then there's the part about which parts of what could use some time a given person can do: D is not primarily a coder. DW as a project is still fighting a tremendous amount of technical debt, and there is ongoing long-term work about that, but it takes people with a specific set of skills to do some of it. (Especially since some of it involves things that were very specific to LiveJournal or that are no longer in common use.)
Some things, like two factor, I know D's talked (again, one of those two communities) about having both technical issues (figuring out how to integrate with the code) and other factors (what information that would mean DW would need to have about users, whether that information could then be demanded by governments, etc.) that are not just as simple as making the code go.
More importantly, none of that is very new, in terms of structure, from 3 years ago or 5 years ago, or even 8.