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On 07/24/2013 12:49 PM, Darryl L.
Pierce wrote:
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:37:09PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:On 07/24/2013 12:15 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 01:50:11AM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: <snip>Obvious we cannot have crowd funding for every moving part in Fedora that would just be ludicrous so we need to apply that concept upon the entire project, as in Fedora would be just a one crowd founded project.<snip> The first issue that comes to mind (for me) is "who cuts the checks"? IOW, who is going to be the person responsible for the money itself, and who has oversight to ensure money's being properly managed and not siphoned off?We would need to form a financial sig that handles that.Are these people going to be paid for their efforts, since it's completely non-technical? No why should they we already have non technical sub-communities existing in our project like marketing or design I'm a board member for my kids' summer swim league. And our treasurer has to deal with writing checks for things like buying bulk swim caps, tshirts, meet supplies, reimbursing people for purchases made for the team, etc. And for 8 weeks of her life that's a lot to do. To then ask someone to do the same all year round as a volunteer for a _much_ larger group is probably not going to happen. It's already happening. Who decides how much gets paid for a bug bounty?Well no one these again are donationsSo the person donating is going to pay it directly to the person who fixed the bug? No he would make a donation to the project directly but set a bounty offer to a bug and in turn % if that donation goes to infra for hosting and other cost. For the first donation aren't limited to bug fixing only bounty offers are but to answer your question to make it finance the project, make it attractive to contribut to the project by making it fun doing so and allow people or teams to earn badges like..What do we do if we have no funds? Do we want bug fixes to become a paid thing, and wouldn't that be a disinsentive if we were to have no money?These are donation not fixed incomes per bug fix so things would remain as they already are.Well, not really since we don't have a bug bounty in place now. ;) But if I follow what you're suggesting, then some one or group will make a payment to the person who provides patch(es) to fix a bug? If so, then why involve Fedora at all in the transaction? "✭ supporter ✭" "✭ Bounty Offerer ✭" "✭ Bounty Hunter ✭" etc.. And to give people to earn a little side $$ with the opportunity to put food on their table ( instead for example spamming the entire world ) or in their recreational activity, education etc while contributing to the overall open source ecosystem when doing so. if you fix that bug or rfe and or work directly with upstream more or less only, or are upstream you could create account and join the Fedoraproject and collect that bounty. JBG |
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