[Foundation-l] Fundraising "Bugging for Dollars"

[David Gerard]

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

>  I don't think
>  it would work for MediaWiki, though - we don't pay people to edit
>  articles, so why should we pay people to patch the software?


Because we're vastly well-supplied with editors and horribly
undersupplied with developers.


> Having
>  the money go to the foundation seems pointless - what does it achieve?
>  Are people really going to be that motivated to fix a particular bug
>  rather than the bug their interested in just so the foundation gets a
>  small donation?


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


- d.