From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Personal gift - INR 10,0000 - to new contributors Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 06:33:58 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87ppj7agy1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400646872 18112 80.91.229.3 (21 May 2014 04:34:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 04:34:32 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 21 06:34:26 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WmyET-0007pQ-Pc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 06:34:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56841 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WmyET-0005O2-Cd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 00:34:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43067) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WmyEK-0005NX-FS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 00:34:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WmyEE-0005YC-Hd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 00:34:16 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51297) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WmyEE-0005Xq-BV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 00:34:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WmyED-0007Lv-9F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 06:34:09 +0200 Original-Received: from x2f3f2e1.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.243.242.225]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 May 2014 06:34:09 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by x2f3f2e1.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 May 2014 06:34:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f3f2e1.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1Mo9ik3LyqvliEUqCHSAZiZ2Kt0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171981 Archived-At: Michal Nazarewicz 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