https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52048

--- Comment #10 from Kevin Hunter <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #9)
> (In reply to Kevin Hunter from comment #8)
> > Honestly?  Find a developer and pay them fair wages.  
> 
> Kevin, that's not a fair comment, as almost all users of LibO (or any other
> FOSS I guess) do not have the kind of money available to sponsor a software
> developer.

Apologies; was not meant to offend.  I thought the intent of his question was
"how to get moving on this getting this enhancement in?"  And the answer to
that is either "wait and hope that a core developer has time/inclination to do
it", or "encourage a new (non-core) developer to do it."  In regards to
open-source software, those are basically the only two options.  The bounty
option he suggested is a version of "pay them fair wages".

Put differently, I don't expect him to personally fund a developer; I, like
most other LibO users, am in the exact boat you describe (no feasible
opportunity to sponsor a software developer).  But he asked "how to push for a
quick solution", which I answered.

> Maybe if the ODF had some sort of 'donation-for-feature'/bounty bins,
> end-users could pool money into them - but not individually.

It doesn't have to be individually, nor do I think I suggested that.  Again, I
answered his question as asked.  If you've a better suggestion or answer,
please do share it.  If I misunderstood, and he was asking for bounty
communities, I can google as well as you.  For example:

    https://freedomsponsors.org/

    https://www.bountysource.com/search?query=libreoffice

But your not wrong that it is perhaps a missed opportunity that TDF doesn't
have their own version.

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