personally, i don't think the money should go to the committers... yeah, we do work on it for free but most of us do it because we _want_ to work on it, not because it might someday pay some bills
i would vote for spending the money on infrastructure... a faster jira server, a faster svn server, things like that... On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Steve Strong <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the idea is a great one, particularly the offer to match donations > - very kind! I do have a couple of comments - firstly, whenever money gets > involved, some people have a tendency to loose sight of reality and start > seeing $$$ signs in front of their eyes. Given that, I would suggest that > we as a group define the rules for how this works prior to taking donations > - that way, everyone (us and those donating) understand where the money is > going and we don't end up in pointless arguments. I suspect the levels of > money won't be all that high, but you never can tell and knowing how it is > to be distributed is important. I think we need to answer questions like: > > - Who is eligible for the money? Any committer? Only "active" > committers? What defines "active"? > - How is the money split? Do all committers (however that's defined) > get the same amount? Is it split by number of commits? Number of lines of > code changed? > - Who owns the bank account? Who has visibility of it? Is it > available for public viewing? > - Do we have any other needs for money other than just distributing it > amongst individuals? Should we keep a pot for "NHibernate" activities, > such > as perhaps sponsoring the occasional conference? Hell, if there's enough > cash we could even have an NHibernate stand! NHibernate T-Shirts & Mugs > anyone?! > > Secondly, I don't see why you shouldn't take a share of this Ayende - you > have made many contributions to the project, and I see NHProf as something > different. Although your *knowledge* of NH helped you write it, there was > nothing about being a committer that made it possible. Anyone else *could* > have written NHProf without being a committer if they'd had both the idea > and the ambition to take it forward. NHProf will make its own money and has > its own associated costs. I don't really see the two (your commercial > activity with NHProf and your altruistic activity with NH) are related. If > they are, then any one of us that undertakes commercial NH consultancy or > writes or contributes to an NH book etc. would also have to come under the > same rules. > > Any thoughts? > > Cheers, > > Steve > > > > On 03/02/2010 17:23, Ayende Rahien wrote: > > Guys, > > I am setting up a donation campaign for NHibernate. As part of that > campaign, my company will donate 5,000$ for the project. > > Below is the text of the blog post that I intend to post. I would like to > get your comments and any suggestions on how to make this better. > > > NHibernate is the most popular Open Source Object Relational Mapper in > the .NET framework. As an Open Source project, all the work done on it is > done for free. We would like to be able to dedicate more time to > NHibernate, but even as a labor of love, the amount of time that we can > spend on a free project is limited. > > In order to facilitate that, we opened a donation > campaign<http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8615>that will allow you to donate > money to the project. > > [image: Click here to lend your support to: NHibernate and make a donation > at www.pledgie.com !] <http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/8615> > > *What is this money going to be used for?* > > This money will go directly to NHibernate committers, in order to sponsor > the development of NHibernate itself. > > As one caveat of that, none of that money is going to go to me personally. > As you are probably aware, I have my own commercial interest in NHibernate > (NHibernate > Profiler <http://nhprof.com/>), so I don’t feel I should benefit from the > donations. > > *Donation Matching* > > Moreover, my company, Hibernating Rhinos <http://hibernatingrhinos.com/>, > is going to *match any donation *to this campaign (to a total limit of > 5,000$), as a way to give back to the NHibernate project for the excellent > software it produced. > > *Why should you donate?* > > If you are a user of NHibernate, you gained a lot from build on such a > solid foundation. We ask to you to donate so that we can make the project > even better. If your company uses NHibernate, ask it to donate to this > campaign. > >
