Ok... good deal. Thanks for sharing your perspective.
I do appreciate all the work you and the rest of the core team does, as well as the plug-in authors. Perhaps I'll become proficient enough at some point to author a plug-in that will be helpful to the community. I'll help where I can! (That's easy to say when you don't have much to offer, huh? ;o) Rick -----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Resig Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 8:50 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: How does everyone handle the constant updating of jQuery and plug-ins? > If Mike were being paid for his time, would he be less stretched and > able to work more on the Project/Plugin system? You'd have to ask Mike, obviously, but at the same time, we'd rather give people the opportunity to selflessly contribute to the project - turning it from a true, community-oriented, project into a pay-to-work project simply doesn't fit well with what we have going on. Frequently, however, no extra amount of money will change how someone is able to contribute to a project - simply life constraints prevent it from occurring. > I just don't want to be in a position to ask Mike or others to give, give, > give, > without being able to give something in return. I get very frustrated > when I'm in the position of just being a "taker" all the time... Well, that's you. :-) The whole jQuery team needlessly gives to the project, with a fantastic outcome. I think that this should be promoted and absolutely continued. No one demands that anyone perform any task - if anyone, Mike included, is interesting in helping we make the resources available to make it happen. I don't believe that we've exhausted all of our options at this point, but if we should decide that our situation is so dire as to require paid development, then we'll most likely run a donation drive in order to make it come around, as opposed to having some sort of a paid system. --John
