> > I do not think you will get very far trying to ransom your bug fixes. > I get that Kickstarter/etc. is great for new/potential projects, but > you're basically saying "well, I already built/fixed this, but crap, it > would have been nice to get paid for it...".
I can appreciate how it might seem that way, but I hope you can appreciate the fact that I had to actually build it first in order to know if it's achievable. It's more like "I already built this for myself, but I want to raise money in order to modify it for general consumption and maintain it thereafter, because I don't want to spend so much extra time working on something that people don't really care about." On Saturday, July 20, 2013 1:12:03 AM UTC-4, Stephen Haberman wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > > By the way, who wants to try it? Please get it touch with me (alex > > at typeracer.com), and I will email you my patch so you can see for > > yourself how awesome it is. > > Instead of emailing a patch, how about just uploading it here: > > https://gwt-review.googlesource.com/#/ > > I do not think you will get very far trying to ransom your bug fixes. > > I get that Kickstarter/etc. is great for new/potential projects, but > you're basically saying "well, I already built/fixed this, but crap, it > would have been nice to get paid for it...". That's not really how open > source works. > > And, FWIW, if you're serious about crowdsourcing some GWT compiler > consulting, I think the "GWT moonshot" concept would be much sexier and > (relatively) more likely to get funded. Granted, it is also more work. > > - Stephen > > -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
