Re: goodbye

2011-09-22 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 19:11, John Tapsell wrote: > Reindl, > >  Sorry to see you go.  I don't know why Aseigo is being childish - I > think this is all just taking its toll on him.  This is one of the > advantages that companies have and we don't have - we can't pay people > to fix the essential

Re: Notice of moderation

2011-09-22 Thread Martin Gräßlin
- Ursprüngliche Mitteilung - > On 09/21/2011 07:19 PM, Ingo Malchow wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > due to recent activities and as being requested, this mailinglist is > > now set to full moderation, which means anyone will get moderated. > > This is not to make you uncomfortable, even the

invest money in free software?

2011-09-22 Thread Robert Klotzner
On Wednesday, September 21, 2011 06:11:09 PM John Tapsell wrote: > I would really like to see bounties being raised for bugs. There > are a lot of problems with having bounties, and in the past such an > idea has been shot down, but maybe it's worth revisiting. If users > care about a bug bein

Re: invest money in free software?

2011-09-22 Thread Reindl Harald
i would be the first to spent some amount of money for fixing things that making me personally tired if no one is interested elsewhere if someone says "pay me 50,- € and i fix it" i am the first saying "thanks here the money" as long i do not need a creditcard or paypal (why: because i don't have

Re: invest money in free software?

2011-09-22 Thread Ingo Malchow
2011/9/22 Reindl Harald : > i would be the first to spent some amount of money for fixing things that > making me personally tired if no one is interested elsewhere > > if someone says "pay me 50,- € and i fix it" i am the first saying "thanks > here > the money" as long i do not need a creditcard

Re: invest money in free software?

2011-09-22 Thread Shantanu Tushar Jha
Hi Robert, A very recent opportunity was at at Sebastian Trueg's blog ( read from this post onwards http://trueg.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/nepomuk-fundraiser/ ) Regards, Shantanu Tushar(UTC +0530) http://www.shantanutushar.com On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Robert Klotzner wrote: > On We

Re: invest money in free software?

2011-09-22 Thread Dale Trombley
Hmmm. Isn't there already a place to make donations? If not it could be a way to go. Donate towards the cause of this bug. Or donations for bug fixes accepted On Sep 22, 2011 5:09 AM, "Robert Klotzner" wrote: > On Wednesday, September 21, 2011 06:11:09 PM John Tapsell wrote: > >> I would really li

Allow users to donate money towards bugs

2011-09-22 Thread John Tapsell
Hi all, I think it would really help with bug reports if we let people donate money towards getting bugs fixed. If there are lots of users annoyed by a bug, and there's no longer a maintainer for that code, then it makes a lot of sense to let those users contribute money towards the bug fix unt

Re: invest money in free software?

2011-09-22 Thread John Tapsell
On 22 September 2011 10:04, Robert Klotzner wrote: > As I am thinking about creating a platform for exactly this purpose, you made > me curious. Could you point me to the thread where this was discussed or maybe > some could highlight the basic reasons why this idea was shot down? Have a google a

Re: goodbye

2011-09-22 Thread Sven Burmeister
Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2011, 10:01:47 schrieb Lydia Pintscher: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 19:11, John Tapsell wrote: > > Reindl, > > > > Sorry to see you go. I don't know why Aseigo is being childish - I > > think this is all just taking its toll on him. This is one of the > > advantages

Re: goodbye

2011-09-22 Thread David Jarvie
On Thu, September 22, 2011 9:01 am, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 19:11, John Tapsell wrote: >> Reindl, >> >>  Sorry to see you go.  I don't know why Aseigo is being childish - I >> think this is all just taking its toll on him.  This is one of the >> advantages that companie

Re: Allow users to donate money towards bugs

2011-09-22 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 22.09.2011 10:29, schrieb John Tapsell: > I think it would really help with bug reports if we let people > donate money towards getting bugs fixed. If there are lots of users > annoyed by a bug, and there's no longer a maintainer for that code, > then it makes a lot of sense to let those users

Notice from moderators

2011-09-22 Thread Torgny Nyblom
Hi, The "goodbye" and the "why are bugs ignored..." threads are officially closed. _No_ more answers to these threads will be allowed. Please take this as a reminder to keep things civil and polite. A disagreement does not have to be unpleasant. /Regards The kde-devel moderators signature.asc

Re: goodbye

2011-09-22 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:08, Sven Burmeister wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2011, 10:01:47 schrieb Lydia Pintscher: >> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 19:11, John Tapsell wrote: >> > Reindl, >> > >> >  Sorry to see you go.  I don't know why Aseigo is being childish - I >> > think this is all jus

Re: invest money in free software?

2011-09-22 Thread Hartmut Noack
Am 22.09.2011 11:46, schrieb John Tapsell: On 22 September 2011 10:04, Robert Klotzner wrote: As I am thinking about creating a platform for exactly this purpose, you made me curious. Could you point me to the thread where this was discussed or maybe some could highlight the basic reasons why t

Re: invest money in free software?

2011-09-22 Thread Sven Burmeister
Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2011, 10:46:10 schrieb John Tapsell: > On 22 September 2011 10:04, Robert Klotzner wrote: > > As I am thinking about creating a platform for exactly this purpose, you > > made me curious. Could you point me to the thread where this was > > discussed or maybe some could

Re: invest money in free software?

2011-09-22 Thread David Narvaez
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Sven Burmeister wrote: > > http://www.cofundos.org/ > > http://bountycounty.org/ > > http://www.opensourcexperts.com/bountylist.html > > https://www.bountysource.com/ > > Thanks for the links, I'll read through them. :-) Hi, just wanted to add this link with an in

Re: invest money in free software?

2011-09-22 Thread Sam S.
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:13 PM, David Narvaez wrote: > Hi, just wanted to add this link with an interesting (and valid?) point of > view > > http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/how-bug-bounties-are-rat-farming-092011 Yes, allowing uncontrolled personal bug bounties would a) open the door to var

Re: invest money in free software?

2011-09-22 Thread David Narvaez
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Harri Porten wrote: > Don Sanders, one of the former KMail maintainers, had such a system set up > many years ago btw. I couldn't find anything about it anymore online. But > iirc it didn't work out too well... > > Harri. Just to clarify, I'm not strictly against

Re: Allow users to donate money towards bugs

2011-09-22 Thread Cornelius Schumacher
On Thursday 22 September 2011 10:29:16 John Tapsell wrote: > > I think it would really help with bug reports if we let people > donate money towards getting bugs fixed. If there are lots of users > annoyed by a bug, and there's no longer a maintainer for that code, > then it makes a lot of sens

CMake 2.8.6-rc4 ready for testing!

2011-09-22 Thread David Cole
The CMake 2.8.6 release candidate stream continues! You can find the source and binaries here: http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D This email is also available on the Kitware blog at http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/170 This is the last rc before the final release, unless somebody

Re: invest money in free software?

2011-09-22 Thread Robert Klotzner
Thanks for the links, your opinions and knowledge about this topic. This was really helpful, thanks a lot! Best regards, Robert >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: Help fixing Lokalize & generic development questions

2011-09-22 Thread Andrew Mason
Hi Albert, > At the moment I am unemployed so if you are really interested drop me a mail > in private and we can have a chat. Thanks, Albert > Thank you for the quick reply. I have sent a proposal to my manager however think he has found another piece of software which seems to do the job