[Foundation-l] Re: Rewards for developers

[Timwi]

Elisabeth Bauer wrote:

> The point is that we currently have no decision making procedure for 
> which features _should_ be implemented.

I wouldn't have thought this decision was particularly hard.

> Encouraging donators to offer money for features they want to be 
> realized would make the situation even worse since most people not 
> involved in coding don't "wish" things which would be necessary from a 
> developer's point of view.

Again, as I said, 25% of the money that donors don't explicitly assign 
to a bug or feature, should be assignable by someone else. The Board of 
Trustees was a suggestion, but if you think the developers should have 
some say about this, then certainly we can come up with an 
averaging-percentage system for this too (and give the Board of Trustees 
permanent voting power). Something like:

At the beginning of Month A,
* I say: Feature X is worth $10, Y is worth $20, Z is worth $25
* You say: Feature X is worth $10, Y is worth $50, Z isn't worth anything
* Jimbo says:  Feature X is worth $22, Y is worth $26, Z is worth $11

Then we get: X = $14, Y = $32, Z = $12

Again, the averaging could optionally be weighted by voting power.

Timwi