=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 21 August 2002 16:03, Daniel Naber wrote: > You might want to work > on things that users need (or better: that they think they need), but > I guess that most developers want to work on things that are fun for > them. And that's the basic problem: people will vote and 90% of the > developers won't care. Then users will be disappointed, even more so > when they actually donated money. I see the masses voting for client-side filtering of IMAP messages in=20 KMail, although that's totally banana. If the amount reaches $1000,=20 someone unrelated will step up, implement it for the money and go away.=20 Wow. And we end up maintaining the sh*t - without payment. I for one agree with Daniel's assesment. I want to work on the things I=20 like, not on what users think they want. I want to implement things=20 right, not fast. I want to implement things when they're ripe in my=20 head, not when they're en vogue in the user community. I am not against collecting money to further development, but I am=20 against collecting money to shove developers into implementing=20 features. Hey, why not consider ages of _bug_ reports, and assign from the pool of=20 donated money to each bug report with a key based on severity and age? base =3D 10*#crashes + 5*#grave + #normal bugs money(crash solved) =3D 10 * available money / base money(grave solved) =3D 5 * available money / base money(normal solved) =3D available money / base money(wish fulfilled) =3D 0 Marc =2D --=20 If free-software authors lose the right to disclaim all warranties and find themselves getting sued over the performance of the programs they've written, they'll stop contributing free software to the world. -- Bruce Perens: Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9Y8BS3oWD+L2/6DgRAmN3AJ9Ulm0iCvWV02nIZDSNFoYf+JqFewCeLefY mfPju+gOynGQtPfhJMLYf+g=3D =3DwD6J =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----