we are asking the community if some dev time should be allocated
Well-motivated but needs more thought.
Spreadcoin is not a legally-constituted entity in any jurisdiction so cannot be a party to a contract.
No-one can enforce exclusive representation of Spreadcoin and no-one can legally represent Spreadcoin as a party to a contract.
No-one's permission nor agreement is required to pursue an application for MS to add SPR the list of supported alts (AIUI, it reduces to persuading someone to create and submit a Docker file for MS to add to an MS-hosted directory).
So, supplementary question - who is offering to shoulder the responsibilities of:
- development
- testing
- maintenance
- continuous integration
- technical support
- liaison with MS
- ensuring continuity
About a week's initial devops work there I reckon (for the bulk of it), about $2500 at contract rates. Plus the ongoing maintenance task, of course - well, once the paradigm is established, it would do SPR more harm than good to have a publicly broken Azure-hosted service than to not offer a service at all.
Cheers
Graham
Very good points!
And I agree, this all looks like a "rushed" move,
although I like the spirit of the people behind this idea.
If anything I like that we explore this with the necessary caution,
so I welcome the discussion.
Microsoft has not much info available about all the open quesions/liabilities/legalities, etc...
BTW, I state my own opinion about this, starting here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1045373.msg14139295#msg14139295 and continuing over the next few pages.