> I'm 99.9% sure that it would not. There were discussions about that in > the past and the members' opinion was to keep such things separate from > the ASF. The ASF would never pay anyone to make an improvement on one of > the projects since it's a NPO and there are certain rules around that > status. >
That's true, we have a guard of great volunteers for such projects, who don't expect to be paid for their job. Though on other side I'd be very interested if such so needed enhancement could be done more quickly (i.e. not related on someone afterhours unsleeping nights). Some time ago I've tried to dig a little into those Layouts techniques, but quickly found that it's not the thing I could enhance myself easily (though it was some initial information provided by Jeremias and Simon and maybe others, but still not easy to understand without UML graphs of pieces interaction), so stayed mostly with work on various XSL/XML parts for my projects needs and left those FO things for real experts :). So, for summary, I could also sponsor additional $100 (if anybody care, Vincent?) to make things happen more quickly, but project status should not change due to that and such sponsor approach should be only on volunteer basis as well. Just some additional thoughts on that. Regards, Andrejus
