Thanks Gez for your opinion and the great explain. Its a good point of view.
The crow-fund could be great, you are thinking in a existing plataform? Whats your opinion about crowfunding at personal developer level new features to a GPL... software?
See you, Jabier.
El mar, 10-09-2013 a las 16:42 -0300, Guillermo Espertino (Gez) escribió:
El 10/09/13 15:47, Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz escribió:
Maybe a percent of the new feature donation, go auto to fix bugs.
Jabier.
El mar, 10-09-2013 a las 20:42 +0200, Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz escribió:
I like a lot but not only for boring task. Maybe the donating sistem need to be updated to sweet final user feature promotion. Think some GPL proyects do this.
Jabier: Paying for new features is always a problem. It could demotivate the creation of less popular features. It's also unfair, because if some developer gets paid for a new feature, why not all of them? And getting money for all the people involved in a non-commercial project is really a problem.
I proposed the idea of a crowdfunding campaign to cover the less sexy tasks because:
- Those task already exist, and in some cases they block the advance of
the project.
- They can be a source of stress and demotivation in developers. They
pile up, nobody does them, and instead of focusing on new features (which can be a more rewarding job) devs have to address demands of users ranting because X thing doesn't work.
- Did I mention nobody wants to do it?
I bet that several developers wouldn't mind if somebody gets money for that, as long as sombody gets rid of those longstanding, annoying bugs.
Inkscape has a bugtracker with lots of detailed bug reports. The importance of those bugs has been more or less agreed by core developers. Some of those bugs are blocking a release. It wouldn't be difficult to come up with a list or priorities, set a price tag for different importance/complexity bugs and set a fundraising goal.
Of course, IF somebody qualified wants to do the job.
Gez