On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 09:55:11PM -0400, Manu Sporny wrote: > This is a highly re-worked proposal for performing upstream donations > and donations to the Debian project. Major changes include: > > * Debian developers are not allowed to receive any direct monetary > contribution or change the upstream DONATE file in any way.
At this point, there is nothing here that is Debian specific, so I echo the suggestion that you take this to a cross-distro list, and/or the FSF, GNOME, and other big upstreams. I do, however, want to repeat my point that this kind of thing is likely to be quite divisive even outside one distro. Donations from end-users are highly likely to go mainly to highly visible projects, such as Firefox/Iceweasel and LibreOffice. Those projects are of course deserving the support, but it leaves all the less-visible but crucially important projects without the support. Which end user is going to realise that, say, freetype or GNU Make or, say, piuparts, even exists? I am, of course, biased, but I think piuparts is a nice example here, from at least two points of view. I wrote it originally, but I am no longer involved with it. How long should I still get a share of the donations? Further, piuparts is a testing tool only used by distro developers, and while it has a big impact on the quality of the distro, it's not something that will be installed on an end-user system. How will an end-user realise that they could donate to the piuparts developers as a thank you for all packages being installable, upgradeable, and removable? I thus continue to think that this whole approach of systematic, program-specific donations is misguided, and it'd be best if you dropped it. -- http://www.cafepress.com/trunktees -- geeky funny T-shirts http://gtdfh.branchable.com/ -- GTD for hackers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130619065342.GH4278@havelock