From kde-devel Sat Mar 12 08:24:36 2005 From: Mathias Homann Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 08:24:36 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Allow money donations for precise bugs Message-Id: <200503120924.37635.Mathias.Homann () eregion ! de> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=111061590009892 Am Samstag, 12. März 2005 09:09 schrieb Boudewijn Gailliaert: > Hi Maurizio, > > I like the idea, but I am pretty shure that a company like MS would > donate a lot of money to skip a few good options in KDE. > How would you handle such situations? i guess his idea would make that impossible. the way i understand him, he wants a "donate" button as an extension of the voting system (think of it as "hey i not only vote for bug number #abcdef to get fixed, i even pay some cash for it"). IMO, there's no way that this could be abused to have some bug NOT fixed / wished feature NOT implemented. > On the other hand: why let people without knowledge, (and maybe > enough money), decide what to do? In the case of user-options it > could work, but not at the system-level. ummm.... maybe because they're the majority? It wouldnt mean that the kde developers have no say anymore... but its the same as with the voting now: its a way to tell which bugs/features are important to a large number of users. I don't have to be a highly-skilled developer to know that i would REALLY want kmail to be able to delete file attachments from stored mails to save me lots of space on disk. I don't have to be a highly skilled developer to know that i would like to be able to attach annotations to mails. (two examples of features wished for kmail since quite a while where voting took place but didn't help that much, but if everyone who voted for one of those hasd paid, say, 1$...) bye, MH -- gpg key fingerprint: 5F64 4C92 9B77 DE37 D184 C5F9 B013 44E7 27BD 763C >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<