Tim wrote:
I find myself in a similar dilemma... What if a few of us banded together and put a bounty on a feature / app, or contracted codeweavers to implement it? I think that would be great. Assuming we can agree on something we'd like to fund, it would be a little more targeted than just voting in CW's appdb.
Problem is, most of the things you might want to have fixed are pretty expensive. Let's say a bug takes ten days to fix. Assuming $100/hr (which is not far off for contract development), that's $8K right there.
Lots of folks have thought about how to solve the problem, but dealing with money is complicated. It'd be better for you to donate time triaging bugs, IMHO. ( http://kegel.com/wine/qa/ ) Just reproduce one bugzilla entry a day for a week, and document what you find, and we'd be very happy!