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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