This idea was born because I'm not a developer but I want to help Wine, this is not a perfect idea, help me to make it better! Maybe this button will appear only on very few bugs/projects (2-3 max?) and money could go directly to Wine and after bug/project will be released/fixed money could go to people. Now Alexandre decides if a patch will be included or not, so I think he will have the task of deciding also money issue. Sorry for my english.. S.A. 2009/9/16 Tom Wickline <twickline(a)gmail.com>:
Hello,
You could have the money go into the general WPF or WCF "Wine Conference Fund" But the problem is if say I donate $50.00 who's to say the bug I donate to will be resolved any time soon? Paypal only allows refunds up to 60 days, so how would you go about a refund if the bug wasn't fixed in say a year or more?
I think it would be hard to keep everyone happy, because as soon as people donate to a bug their going to expect something in return. And a refund most likely if the bug isn't fixed.
Tom
2009/9/16 Nicklas Börjesson <Nicklas.Borjesson(a)ws.se>
I suppose that this only will appear on some bugs and disregarding that people might put off fixing bugs waiting for it to become a "pay-bug". Who's going to get the money? It seems quite common that people share credit on fixing bugs, should we burden Alexandre with the task of deciding that? Wouldn't this rather be on "projects", than bugs? The bug mentioned feels more like a "project".
//Nicklas
-----Original Message----- From: wine-devel-bounces(a)winehq.org on behalf of sacchi antonio Sent: Wed 2009-09-16 11:47 To: wine-devel(a)winehq.org Subject: [bugzilla] donate to sponsoring bug
hello all. I'm new here but I'd like to suggest something, what do you think about this? http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/2940/wined.png
Maybe it will be good for old/hard bugs?
Thanks