Callsigns are a Big Deal. They are the reason it's impossible for me to use diffusion in my typical use case i.e. quickly looking at a file I did not checkout: the unpredictability of the URL forces people to use GitHub, where we have an easy URL structure.
3000 $ (https://secure.phabricator.com/T4245#116063) is a very reasonable price to pay for such an obnoxious problem to be eliminated.
Open questions:
* who is responsible of such a process (people who might know: @Wwes, Katherine);:
* which directors/managers, if any, have any spending authority for such contracts (people who might know, at least about themselves: Lindsey, @mark, Rachel, @RobLa-WMF, @Tfinc, @Tnegrin, @TrevorParscal);* @greg is.
* (after the above is resolved) exact requirements/specifications of the job to be requested.* which directors/managers, if any, have any spending authority for such contracts:
** @greg does