Difficulty Finding Python Developers

[Paul Rubin]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:
> I thought the discussion was a 3-month project.  To me, that's
> definitely not something I would classify as a "serious production
> project".  I know, I know, the length alone shouldn't be enough to
> call it serious or production or not.  It's just not the term I
> would apply to something that short.  "Experiment", maybe, or
> "quickie", or "co-op student project" or something...

It often means "we have a huge deadline in three months and are forced
to bring in contractors because the in-house staff is and
overstretched and not sufficiently up to speed on this stuff".  In
which case the contractor better need zero ramp-up time.