On 24/02/14 18:58, Arlo Barnes wrote:
It seems like the first step in something like this is ascertaining whether the devs would be able to devote more time if there were feature bounties anyway, that is not always the case.
I agree. I think this will be a slow change too. If we want to have more full time, paid developers in Free Software then we need to really refine some of these ways of funding them. I am concerned about the number of folk resorting to to "bottlenecking" type methods, and of course there are a lot of dev's paid for by big business too (google+mozilla). I feel that the crowd-funding method would be a very good thing if we scaled it up a notch in some ways (number of projects funded) but tuned it in more too (specific features as well as huge and general projects)
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