On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:22 AM, mark <dvlhntr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Could this be an interesting test use of https://www.fossexperts.com/ ? > > 'Community' driven proposal - multiple people / orgs agree to pay various > portions? Maybe with multiple funders a reasonable target fund amount could > be reached. > > Just throwing around ideas here. This is a bit off-topic, but as of now, they're only accepting proposals for projects to be performed by CommandPrompt itself. So that doesn't help me much (note the sig). But in theory it's a good idea. Of course, when and if they open it up, then what? If more than one developer or company is interested in a project, who determines who gets to do the work and get paid for it? If that determination is made by CommandPrompt itself, or if it's just a free-for-all to see who can get their name on the patch that ends up being committed, it's going to be hard to get other people/companies to take it very seriously. Another problem is that even when they do open it up, they apparently intend to charge 7.5 - 15% of the contract value as a finder's fee. That's a lot of money. For a $100 project it's totally reasonable, but for a $10,000 project it's far more expensive than the value of the service they're providing can justify. (Let's not even talk about a $100,000 project.) -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
