On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Thibaut VARENE wrote: > It's obvious "giving" money will affect someone's behaviour (allowing > him/her to work full time on a project, for instance). And as action > induces reaction, the moment there's someone which is given money, > there will be two class of peoples: the ones who are given money, and > those who aren't. How would "those who aren't" be unaffected by the > fact that some "are"?? Ever heard of "jealousy" for one thing?
Yes I have. But if the structure is open to everyone, then everybody has a chance to request funding. Not everybody will have the requested funding of course, but that depends on many factors: how many other DD appreciate your work, how many donators like your project, the expected impact of the project, etc. Jealousy is already present: some people are already working on Debian during work hours. I'm merely trying to not make it worse by externalizing/impersonalizing as much as possible of the decision making in the infrastructure that I described. > In my view, if I were involved in a given project, giving it a good > part of my free (unpaid) time, and I were to see some other guy > working on this very same project doing the same work I'm doing, I > guess I wouldn't feel terribly well. Now if that guy were to do deep > shit and if I had to walk behind him to collect his crap in order to > keep the project in shape, I guess I would be extremely upset. So would I and so would anyone I bet. But that's why there are some dynamics involved: a bad developer that has been paid will get a bad review of his work. This review will discourage donators to fund further projects of him. And so this would happen hopefully only once for a given bad developer. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
