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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Personal gift - INR 10,0000 - to new contributors
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 06:33:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppj7agy1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: xa1t4n0kyxhz.fsf@mina86.com

Michal Nazarewicz <mpn@google.com> writes:

> FYI, somehow related initiative which Emacs could be part of once git
> conversion is done: http://tip4commit.com/

That's sort of a small-scale Ponzi scheme kept running by keeping money
in the system.  They pay out 1% of project pool funds per commit, retain
small payouts and return them into the "project pool" after a while.

So except for large payments and/or few main contributors of fast-moving
projects with lots of commits, a large part of the contributions stays
stuck in the system.  In particular, it is no incentive for
new/occasional contributors as they never receive a payout unless the
system is inundanted with donations.

-- 
David Kastrup




  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-21  4:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-20 21:02 Personal gift - INR 10,0000 - to new contributors Michal Nazarewicz
2014-05-21  4:33 ` David Kastrup [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-03-21  6:45 Jambunathan K
2014-03-21  6:55 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-21  9:06   ` Aurélien Aptel
2014-03-21  9:09     ` Vibhav Pant
2014-03-21 11:53     ` Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
2014-03-21 13:45     ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-21 15:01       ` Aurélien Aptel
2014-03-21 15:07         ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-21 13:31 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-21 20:44 ` Tom

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