From kde-devel Sat Mar 12 19:02:52 2005 From: Kevin Krammer Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:02:52 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Allow money donations for precise bugs Message-Id: <200503122002.52286.kevin.krammer () gmx ! at> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=111065422808718 On Saturday 12 March 2005 19:33, Stephan Binner wrote: > On Saturday 12 March 2005 09:24, Mathias Homann wrote: > > It wouldnt mean that the kde developers have no say anymore... > > "2. when, and if, the *overall* donation for a given feature reaches a > certain threshold, that feature is *guaranteed* to be implemented." I think it means that if a developer says he'll implement X when money reaches Y, he has some obilgations to do it when the money really does reach Y. I think the main problem with the implementation guarantee is that being implemented doesn't mean a lot. If the developer finishes it and attaches the patches to the bug report, it is implemented. It doesn't necessarily make it into the source repository and thus into the releases. For example assume that someone would pay Euro1000 for patching KMail to have it send HTML mails by default. I guess this could easily be implemented but I doubt it would be accepted by the KMail developers. So while being implemented as guaranteed, the "buyer" has still to role their own packages and keep the patches in sync with changes to KMails sources. But this reduces the usefullness for the "ordinary user" almost to zero. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User www.mrunix.de - German Unix/Linux programming forum www.qtforum.org - Qt programming forum >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<