I would suggest that if anyone wanted to "hire" a developer to do some work
they should do it as an independent arrangement and then both parties can
negotiate costs, terms, and code donations as per a standard development
contract. I think involving the foundation in anything like this could open
up a legal minefield.
Al.
P.S. imho we should just spin-off (or kill off) the dojo plugin, if it needs
paid-for time just to keep it up to date then I would say that it's not
something we can support to a level that's acceptable to the users. I
recently had a shot at updating it, but found it was far easier just to use
YUI directly than to update the dojo plugin and then use the S2 dojo tags.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeromy Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Developers List" <dev@struts.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 5:39 AM
Subject: commercial: paying for work on features
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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