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Subject: Re: Allow money donations for precise bugs
From: "Fred P." <fprog26 () hotmail ! com>
Date: 2005-03-15 16:15:01
Message-ID: BAY104-F43B1EAA294AB40A83E408A7570 () phx ! gbl
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Hi everyone,
I think that we can summarise this thread as follow:
- It's more important to have developpers than users.
[KDE can evolve with developpers, but can't without them]
- It's rewarding for developpers to please users, mainly if it can solve one
of their hitch also.
- Some developpers work for big companies or are sponsored.
- Many developpers think that once you introduced money, then why should you
help the community for free in the long run? Therefore, having a bounty
system may indirectly hurt KDE.
- Some developpers have a day job non-KDE related and would like to earn
money hacking KDE or get sponsored.
- The bounty system, if implemented, should be made for solving "outstanding
issues" that nobody really wanna fix or are difficult to fix and therefore,
should not be consequently "abused".
- In general, KDE should promote the current "collective help" approach,
where people donate time instead of money on various aspects of KDE: code,
documentation, help, graphics, usability, accessibility, testing, promoting,
advertising, etc.
- It would be nice to do a big in-depth KDE survey for each major revision
x.y, to know what are the outstanding issues to provide a general feedback
guidelines to the developpers. Note: It's already done partially via
mailling list, bugs voting and 3rd-party reviews, but a bigger survey would
be nice.
Therefore:
For those, who wish to make a general donation to the "KDE fan clubs",
there's always KDE e.V.:
http://www.kde.org/support/support.php
For those, who wish to make a "specific" donation for "specific outstanding
issues",
there's this KDE wiki page to do so with a dual cross-reference to the
bugs.kde.org
KDE Bounties
http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=bounties
For those, who "DON'T CARE" about this and prefer hacking something else,
please ignore.
BTW, a kde-bounties@kde.org mailing list would be a better way to do this.
Comments are more than welcome.
Sincerely yours,
Fred.
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