2009/9/24 Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Ben Klein wrote: [...]
The real issue is that anything that *looks* (to a normal user) like "give money and get your bug fixed" is not going to be good for the Wine project. That includes pledges.
That's just your opinion (both that pledges == donations and that they won't be good for Wine).
"I pledged $200 to get the DIB Engine fixed two weeks ago an it still hasn't been done. What's going on?"
"It's now been two MONTHS since I pledged $200 on the DIB Engine and it's still not fixed. Wine is so disorganised. There's real money here and you don't want it. I'm glad I never paid it."
"Six months, no progress on DIB Engine. Never using Wine again. Get your act together!"
^^ This will happen more than bugs with donations/pledges getting fixed faster than other bugs.
And if WPF gets the money anyway and no one else, what point is there attaching the donations to a particular bug?