Hi all! It is an issue I have been thinking about for some time, and I'm curious if it has been discussed amongst the developers before. So, there is a feature I really want, and I have filed a wishlist bug for it and all (Bug #107302, specifically), but of course, I fully recognize that every developer has ideas of his own that he wants to pursuit, that there isn't enough time to hack up every idea that comes by and that it is probably best in the long run that whoever writes the code gets to decide what to work on. So, if my ideas are to be implemented, I have to be prepared to pay for it too. Now, I live off a normal salary too, so a contract to pay the total costs for a given feature is beyond my reach, but say that I say "I pledge to pay €100 to whoever gets the feature in Bug #107302 into KDE". That's not a lot of money, but if the right guy sees that he could probably do it in a reasonable amount of time after several people have made similar pledges, then perhaps it could work? Now, this introduces a lot more complexity in the social fabric of a free software project. All kinds of things could happen: I might not feel that the feature fulfilled my intention behind the request and decide not to follow up my pledge, and the guy who then had spent the time might feel cheated. We might both be content with the new feature, but then, it might not make to the official branch. All this would probably call for regulations and bureaucracy, and lawyers... *shrug*. It would be a long discussion. OTOH, it could help a lot more people making a decent living from writing free software, so it might be worth thinking about. Have you people thought about it? Cheers, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Programmer / Astrophysicist / Ski-orienteer / Orienteer / Mountaineer kjetil@xxxxxxxxxxxx Homepage: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/ OpenPGP KeyID: 6A6A0BBC
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