From kde-usability Sat Mar 12 15:41:29 2005 From: "Aaron J. Seigo" Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 15:41:29 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: Allow money donations for precise bugs Message-Id: <200503120841.31133.aseigo () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=111064219400325 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============0200153122==" --===============0200153122== Content-type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary=nextPart1326572.8voPgJxcqD Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit --nextPart1326572.8voPgJxcqD Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 12 March 2005 12:37, Maurizio Colucci wrote: > Currently, in bugs.kde.org, I can *vote* for some bugs or new features. My > idea is to allow KDE users and fans to put their *money* in place of > abstract "votes". the more i think about this, the more problems i see it creating. "people=20 paying for bad features" is the least of them IMHO. there's issues of who=20 decides when it's "done"; there's issues of code quality; there's issues of= =20 collecting and disbursing money; legalities that would come into play?;=20 there's issues of more than one person working on the same BR and feeling t= he=20 shaft when one of them gets the bounty; the fact that i don't see 20 people= =20 voting on a bug coming up with any amount of money that correlates to the=20 time involved in fixing things; the fact that it isn't the patchwork that=20 needs help, it's the larger development issues which this doesn't address,= =20 and so on. and yet it seems like an intuitive idea. one that could work if only tweake= d=20 in some way... so how about this scenario: a concerned and excited group of KDE fans create a Friends of KDE that othe= r=20 people could join for $N/year or month or whatever for which they get a=20 little membership card and some cool perks for being part of the team. the= =20 =46riends of KDE, besides being a nice avenue for grass roots promotion, wo= uld=20 then distribute this money directly to developers to cover things like trav= el=20 expenses to conferences, to help give them extra hours in the week to work = on=20 KDE instead of working on other things (for those who have such flexibility= ,=20 anyways), perhaps even to sponsor one or two of our more impressive but=20 not-employed-to-work-on-KDE developers. in other words, if there truly is this burgeoning but untapped cash pit out= =20 there in the form of $20 here and $10 there amongst the user base, provide = a=20 way to collect it (with incentives to those doing so) and then use it to fu= nd=20 the existing process. if people don't like how the existing development is going, i don't see how= =20 their $20 is going to change that. if they do like how it is going and woul= d=20 like to say "thank you" and even help it go smoother and faster, then i can= =20 see that $20 helping. just my $0.02 =2D-=20 Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 --nextPart1326572.8voPgJxcqD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCMw2r1rcusafx20MRAnQpAJ44vOYBc6wTYhLslLfoOhxWX+NfGACeM0Vp /5l7nRmNxB3qmxfoccZKALE= =UYCx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1326572.8voPgJxcqD-- --===============0200153122== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability --===============0200153122==--