On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster < webmas...@krackedpress.com> wrote:
> > Spending money, via donations, geared to one feature and not the whole > package can be a VERY bad marketing issue. > > I never liked it. If you donate money to one feature and it does not get > added, or fixed, in "your time line" and not the developer's, it can be a > mess. > > We do not know what can be fixed easily, or if something that looks simple > will be a real hard add or fix. The simple things tend to be not so simple. > > We cannot even make a paper trail to show an agency [required by] that the > donation towards a "feature" would even go to it. That would make a big > legal mess. > > Paying a third party to "fix" things has been used by spammers for a long > time. +1 to all that, but I think offering a payment and letting a developer opt in or out is fine. As long as user and developer understand LibreOffice has no part in the process. Best, Joel -- *Joel Madero* LibreOffice QA Volunteer jmadero....@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
