Thread:Talk:Release Management RFP/Cost v. benefit/reply

Short answer: if the Foundation just wants a team to manage two tarballs, then the only amount that we're asking for is is the amount by "Total technical".

However, with that amount we won't be able to a lot of community building or engaging with larger users. That is something that the Foundation has said that they would like to see -- "the MediaWiki community would benefit from a more diverse set of benefactors for MediaWiki maintenance".

If that is the case, then they really need to help with some seed money for the process. We don't expect this to be ongoing, though, since we expect to get the funding from the user group in the future.