[Foundation-l] Fundraising "Bugging for Dollars"

[Thomas Dalton]

>  > 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.

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.