Luca De Marini wrote:
just a curiosity. Why do they need money, or better, a certain amount of money? Are they using something like Rentacoder? Because if this is not the case, I do not understand the need for money.
Let me take the case of the inline spellchecker that is now implemented in trunk (i.e. next version of LyX):
This feature has been requested for *years* by a lot of users. Unfortunately no LyX developer, including me, found this feature interesting enough to devote their spare time in order to implement it.
So I had the idea to create these sponsorship project in order to enable users or company to actually do something about it. I found no other means than money in order to motivate a developer.
The rest is history: people donated money, I took the project (and the money) and I implemented the feature. Now let's be clear about it: this money is not worth the total time I spent on this feature; I actually spent more than 10 full days for that project. I actually this a just retribution for a feature I was not interested in to begin with.
Cheers, Abdel
