Am Dienstag, 27. September 2011, 10:50:09 schrieb Anne Wilson: > On 09/25/2011 03:36 PM, Cornelius Schumacher wrote: > > They don't become evil, but money as incentive will negatively > > affect their motivation. There are scientific studies, which show, > > that this kind of extrinsic motivation actually leads to worse > > results than doing it without this incentive. > > Do you really believe that the numbers of requests and amounts of > money involved would change the motivation of our developers? It > seems to me that one of the chief demotivators is the feeling that > people whine over little things that don't really matter. If someone > is willing to "put their money where there mouth is" it must be > important to them, which may indeed motivate the developer, and > recognition in the community would be no less for that. It would > still be the developer's decision as to whether it is in his project's > best interest to have this feature - useful only for a few is one > thing, but harmful to others would still be rejected.
If the money donated to a bug is not to motivate the developers, but a way for users to show that they care about a bug, then why don't donate the money to the KDE eV? This way we don't have discussions about who gets the money, no developers who just try to get the money etc. and we even get more money for KDE which can then be used for developer sprints to make the software even better :) This discussion is mostly about no money at all vs. money to developers, and I guess it will end with no result, as there are many people strictly against money to developers. But most arguments against it just apply to the "money to developers", not to "money to KDE", so why don't we discuss about this? A completely other question is, of course, whether the financial gain KDE would get with this is worth the work to organize it. Regards, Felix >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
