Since I posted to 2 places about this and mentioned our group, to be polite I will point it out:
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=381&p=1968788#p1968788 http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gid=52867&discussionID=10554178&goback=.anh_52867 Apparently there is some talk of paying Joomla core developers to encourage getting releases done. My personal opinion is that it won't help as things stand right now and just lead to resentment. As they stand now, the Joomla Core Team DOES work, on the core, which is the part of Joomla that they use for their paying projects. What doesn't get done are all the other components they don't use, Contacts, Polls, Banners, etc. Since I don't think one can match the fees they get for freelance projects where they use the Core, what will end up happening is that they will get paid to do the fun stuff they already do, the Core, and still the other items won't get done since they will get more money using what they wrote in their other paying projects. What really needs to happen is to get other groups committing to update/upgrade the other components. Which is where I see the user group could come in, if we sponsored/controlled one of those items we get extra exposure of our group and our individual members services. And our rep is on the line to make sure the component is kept up to date, even though it is not a "sexy" component to work on. Get half a dozen to a dozen companys and groups to do that each with ONE component, and then release cycles speed up. THEN it is time to talk about paying core developers, because I think it WOULD help. But if they go the route of paying the core developers before establishing a working structure for the rest, all that will lead to is the core being updated slightly faster, but no one else seeing that it is updated because without the other components very few people can actually take the core and do something with it. It would also mean that more people would have input and an idea of what new features are coming up, since there would be a lot of small teams all over actually working with them. I don't think it will happen, because quite frankly it means Open Source Matters has to give up some of the "control" they have over things - even though they still have the final say on accepting an upgraded component or not. And people are always reluctant to give up control. I just figured since I essentially "volunteered" us for this[even though it was just an example and not a commitment] it would be polite to make sure I pointed it out to the group. :-)
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