Re: [bugzilla] donate to sponsoring bug

2009-09-24 Thread Francois Gouget
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Ben Klein wrote: [...] > "I pledged $200 to get the DIB Engine fixed two weeks ago an it still > hasn't been done. What's going on?" That's just an argument for closing Bugzilla. Otherwise you're going to offend all those who took the time to enter a bug (time=money) whose bu

Re: [bugzilla] donate to sponsoring bug

2009-09-24 Thread Ben Klein
2009/9/24 Francois Gouget : > On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Ben Klein wrote: > [...] >> The real issue is that anything that *looks* (to a normal user) like >> "give money and get your bug fixed" is not going to be good for the >> Wine project. That includes pledges. > > That's just your opinion (both that

Re: [bugzilla] donate to sponsoring bug

2009-09-24 Thread Austin English
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Francois Gouget wrote: > That said I really don't care much because the Wine project would not > know what to do with the money anyway. It's not that sponsoring > developers to go to the Wine conference is not good but it does not > scale. > > So if we raised 1

Re: [bugzilla] donate to sponsoring bug

2009-09-24 Thread Francois Gouget
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Ben Klein wrote: [...] > The real issue is that anything that *looks* (to a normal user) like > "give money and get your bug fixed" is not going to be good for the > Wine project. That includes pledges. That's just your opinion (both that pledges == donations and that they

Re: [bugzilla] donate to sponsoring bug

2009-09-21 Thread Ben Klein
2009/9/22 Tom Wickline : > What about a hybrid Donate/Pledge box? I'm aware there is a Donate section > on the main site. But could this somehow be Incorporated into the rest of > the site? > Bugs and Apps DB or would it just be tacky :) The real issue is that anything that *looks* (to a normal us

Re: [bugzilla] donate to sponsoring bug

2009-09-21 Thread Tom Wickline
What about a hybrid Donate/Pledge box? I'm aware there is a Donate section on the main site. But could this somehow be Incorporated into the rest of the site? Bugs and Apps DB or would it just be tacky :) Cheers, Tom On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Francois Gouget wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 200

Re: [bugzilla] donate to sponsoring bug

2009-09-21 Thread Francois Gouget
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Tom Wickline wrote: [...] > But the problem is if say I donate $50.00 who's to say the bug I > donate to will be resolved any time soon? Paypal only allows refunds > up to 60 days, so how would you go about a refund if the bug wasn't > fixed in say a year or more? The solut

RE: [bugzilla] donate to sponsoring bug

2009-09-19 Thread Nicklas Börjesson
>It would be an administration nightmare and probably wouldn't incite the >developers >to work harder on those bugs/projects. A nightmare it would most certainly be. It is almost impossible to make these decisions without hurting peoples feelings in, probably, at least haft the cases. //Nick

Re: [bugzilla] donate to sponsoring bug

2009-09-18 Thread Ben Klein
2009/9/19 sacchi antonio : > This idea was born because I'm not a developer but I want to help Wine, > this is not a perfect idea, help me to make it better! > Maybe this button will appear only on very few bugs/projects (2-3 > max?) and money could go directly to Wine and after bug/project will >

[bugzilla] donate to sponsoring bug

2009-09-18 Thread sacchi antonio
g >> that? >> Wouldn't this rather be on "projects", than bugs? The bug mentioned feels >> more like a "project". >> >> //Nicklas >> >> -----Original Message- >> From: wine-devel-boun...@winehq.org on behalf of sacchi antonio >

Re: [bugzilla] donate to sponsoring bug

2009-09-16 Thread Tom Wickline
> Wouldn't this rather be on "projects", than bugs? The bug mentioned feels > more like a "project". > > //Nicklas > > -Original Message- > From: wine-devel-boun...@winehq.org on behalf of sacchi antonio > Sent: Wed 2009-09-16 11:47 > To:

RE: [bugzilla] donate to sponsoring bug

2009-09-16 Thread Nicklas Börjesson
f deciding that? Wouldn't this rather be on "projects", than bugs? The bug mentioned feels more like a "project". //Nicklas -Original Message- From: wine-devel-boun...@winehq.org on behalf of sacchi antonio Sent: Wed 2009-09-16 11:47 To: wine-devel@winehq.org Subj

[bugzilla] donate to sponsoring bug

2009-09-16 Thread sacchi antonio
hello all. I'm new here but I'd like to suggest something, what do you think about this? http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/2940/wined.png Maybe it will be good for old/hard bugs? Thanks