From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Kickstarter for Emacs Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:28:09 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87wr5dfm9v.fsf@gnu.org> <878vht9kjr.fsf@gmx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334813319 4720 80.91.229.3 (19 Apr 2012 05:28:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:28:39 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 19 07:28:38 2012 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 1SKjv3-0003eG-LL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:28:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46277 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKjv2-0002uI-SM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:28:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58529) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKjux-0002tY-Le for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:28:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKjus-0001uE-Al for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:28:31 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47197) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKjus-0001u2-3l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:28:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SKjun-0003QC-NZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:28:21 +0200 Original-Received: from 178-164-187-27.pool.digikabel.hu ([178.164.187.27]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:28:21 +0200 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 178-164-187-27.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:28:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 178.164.187.27 (Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.62) 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:149806 Archived-At: Eric Schulte gmx.com> writes: > > Maybe the FSF donation system linked above should be enhanced adding; > > 1. increased donation granularity to specific features tasks or bugs, > > 2. user (not-developer) introduction of projects of interest, e.g., "if > someone did X I'd happily donate Y" and an up-vote or up-donate > driven system of ranking and displaying pledges. > Maybe it should be a simple feature voting system from the user side, because processing the actual donations (taking them, refunding them if not enough people actually donates for the feature, etc) is complicated, and not likely to be implemented quickly. So this feature could only be about getting an idea how many people want a particular feature, and when developers see what people actually want then they could start the actual proposals on one of the mentioned funding sites by describing eactly what they want to implement, how much time will it take and how much funding they need for this, etc. This simple feature voting system (without payment processing) is easier to implement on the FSF side, so it's more likely we have something useful working quickly. BTW, why not use Google Moderator for this kind of feature voting? It does exactly this after all: people send in submissions and other people can vote for the submissions: https://sites.google.com/site/moderatorhelpcenter/getting-started/guide