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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