On 9/15/2022 11:46 AM, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 10:04:48PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > I am not against giving maintainers like Steve just compensation for the > > work they do fixing bugs, and by compensation I mean money. > > It's a very tricky subject to propose to start paying (some?) people > in what was always a volunteer project, to do the same work that > others do voluntarily. It has been proposed before, and it did not > go down well. Search for "dunc tank debian" to read about that. > > More recently (since 2014), the Debian LTS effort started paying > people to upload fixed Debian packages past the end of the normal > release lifetime. This is organised by private company Freexian who > accept sponsorship funds and pay developers to do this work for > Debian, not out of Debian's own funds. > > https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html > https://wiki.debian.org/LTS > https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/FAQ > > They do LTS, ELTS and some other limited scope efforts. > > If you do use Debian LTS maybe you could consider contributing to > this? Though I would point out: > > - It's not going to give you the right to tell people what to work > on, how to do it, govern their timescales etc. Sponsors are paying > for a certain amount of developer time per month, but Freexian and > those developers decide what to work on and how to do it. > > - At the moment the minimum contribution is €255/year. > > It could also be interesting to explore individual packaging teams > within Debian having Patreon and/or ko-fi accounts or similar. > > Broadly though, none of these small scale funding ideas are ever > going to give you the kind of service you apparently seem to want: > to be able to force the developers to work on what you want them to > work on, in the way you want them to work on it. I can only ever see > that happening in situations where you pay much much more for a > bespoke solution.
So I have to pay someone lots of money to fix a problem I already know how to fix? I don't think you really understand my use case very well. Cheers
