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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Allow money donations for precise bugs
From:       Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
Date:       2005-03-12 19:02:52
Message-ID: 200503122002.52286.kevin.krammer () gmx ! at
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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

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Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
www.mrunix.de - German Unix/Linux programming forum
www.qtforum.org - Qt programming forum
 
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