From kde-usability Tue Mar 15 16:15:01 2005 From: "Fred P." Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:15:01 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: Allow money donations for precise bugs Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=111090338812608 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. _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability