http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2082
--- Comment #38 from Stefan Dösinger stefandoesinger@gmx.at 2007-12-15 19:10:06 --- (In reply to comment #37)
So say I want some bugs fixed (not workarounds, but fixes in order to make the api behave as the MS implementation), by paying wine developers to do that. I think there _is_ a company behind wine. So do you have anything in place? Is paying for each bug enough to generate the commercial interest in fixing them?
This is discussed quite often, but there is no real bugfix bounty system. The problem with it is that getting a bug fixed is quite expensive in the end. At codeweavers we have some metric that fixing a minor bug costs us between 1000-1500 USD, which is way too much for a user to offer for a bugfix.
One might argue that such bounties sum up, but unfortunately, everyone wants a different bug fixed. The problem of Wine is that it has such a broad aim, so everyone has different problems he wants fixed.
So my personal way of dealing with this is that if I do not have any specific apps to get running, I'm implementing missing features without focusing on specific application, or I am picking random bugs, but that is rather rare though.
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