"But while money has the potential to build bridges, it more often than not just builds walls."
Very true, Stephan. It does have pros and cons and I would only suggest it to prevent chaos in the system from lack of information management or to prevent jQuery from losing its push towards greater acceptance and manageability. It's nice to see a community work together as this one does... I just hope it can continue in an efficient manner. So far, so good! Rick -----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephan Beal Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 1:21 PM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] Re: How does everyone handle the constant updating of jQuery and plug-ins? On Jul 29, 6:49 pm, "Rick Faircloth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An equitable system would have to be worked out, but no one > who contributes would have been excluded... The Debian team recently (some months ago) got into a political pickle when they *hired* a release manager. The fact that anyone was getting paid caused several of the developers to (reportedly) leave the team. It wasn't necessarily that they wanted to be paid as well, but the principal that some individuals were getting paid at all while thousands of other contributors were not. While the idea has its merits, i think a subscription service for jQuery plugins would open up a similar can of worms. i agree completely with Karl that donations should be voluntary, and that nobody would complain about a monthly donation (whether it be 3 Euros or 20 Euros). But while money has the potential to build bridges, it more often than not just builds walls.
