[Foundation-l] Fundraising "Bugging for Dollars"

Thu Mar 20 23:08:08 UTC 2008

On 20/03/2008, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

>  > If we actually got enough bug donation money to fund paying a dev,
>  >  that would be *fantastically* helpful to the projects by enhancing
>  >  MediaWiki.

> The basically involves using the donations to prioritise what the paid
>  devs work on, which is certainly far more doable than trying to
>  control what the unpaid devs do. I'm not sure what the paid devs
>  currently prioritise, but I think it's generally big projects like
>  single user logon, rather than small bug fixes and feature requests,
>  which are what's likely to get donations.

I wouldn't say that's *bad*. Having such a system work at all would
produce motion within the buglist.

- d.