commercial: paying for work on features

[Jeromy Evans]

Each week I try to make some voluntary contribution to an open source 
project through support or coding. As I have my own business though I 
must resist the temptation to do more for Struts2 as when I do I 
directly neglect some other priority. Often the consequence is that I 
contribute code in areas that direct benefit me and issues of importance 
to the community are missed.

Given that I'd like to do more but often can't justify it, I was 
wondering whether it's appropriate for an individual or business to 
attempt to raise funding for the direct improvement of struts2?  For 
example, the Struts2 tags for Dojo 1.1 are one of the most frequently 
requested improvements.  I have both the skills and the time required to 
create them, but as I don't need Dojo support myself I cannot justify 
the effort.  If I could raise some funding for the work though I 
certainly would do it and I suspect there are some progressive 
businesses out there that would appreciate the cost/benefit.

The crucial point here is that I'm not talking about donations to 
Apache; rather I'm talking about individuals or businesses soliciting 
funding to perform work on Struts2.  Personally I'd hate to see emails 
in struts-users from Joe Everyman soliciting funding ("I'll fix that bug 
it if you pay me $50 on paypal"), but on the other hand there seems to 
be a missed opportunity to improve Struts2 here.

How does the PMC feel about this and what are the implications?

regards,
Jeromy Evans

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