[bugzilla] donate to sponsoring bug

[sacchi antonio]

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
>
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[Ben Klein]

2009/9/19 sacchi antonio <antoniosacchi85(a)gmail.com>:
> 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.

I agree with the objections so far to pay-per-bug. It would be an
administration nightmare and probably wouldn't incite the developers
to work harder on those bugs/projects.

We've already go the "vote for bug" popularity contest, which can be
used to work out bug fix priorities.

There's plenty you can do with helping Wine that's not
developer-related. We're always looking for good app/version
maintainers on AppDB, documentation writers etc. Even just answering
questions on the forum, wine-users mailing list or #winehq IRC channel
is invaluable help (developers don't usually get time to do these
things).

[Nicklas Börjesson]

> It would be an administration nightmare and probably wouldn't incite the developers
> to work harder on those bugs/projects.

A nightmare it would most certainly be.  
It is almost impossible to make these decisions without hurting peoples feelings in, probably, at least haft the cases.

//Nicklas