Kannan Goundan <kannan@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Thanks for the explanation. I didn't realize some projects don't want to > initialize all their submodules, but the explicit opt-in idea you described > sounds nice. > > I've seen cases where people will financially "sponsor" feature development > in open source projects. Is there any precedent for this in the Git > project? Is it ok to use this mailing list to ask about such things? We are unfortunately not set up to handle money well. For a background explanation, please go read [*1*], which I wrote my take on "money" some time ago. Note that it is an explanation and not a justification. It explains why we are not set up to handle money well and what the issues around money that are troublesome for the project are. It does not mean to say that it is a good thing that it is hard to buy feature with money from our project [*2*]. I do not see (and back then in the discussion I do not think anybody saw) how we can make "We, a sponsoring company, pay this money to the project to fund effort Y." work well. But that of course does not mean it is impossible to make it work--somebody with a fresh perspective may come up a way to do so, and that would be a very welcome development. [Footnote/Reference] *1* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/264993/focus=265215 *2* Just like my message that you are responding to was an explanation of the reason why we do not recurse and and initialize all submodules by default. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html