I agree that the logistics of how to distribute money to committers would be hard to tie down ... to pay me to fix a bug might take 4 days, but the same bug could be fixed by Fabio/Ayende/etc in 2 hours. (Not to mention I keep my daily rates suitably high ... so perhaps NH couldn't afford me? ) I do this for personal achievement, and I am happy to contribute time whenever I practically can.
In addition, I would feel genuinely guilty accepting money after coming to the project so late in the day, and contributing a comparatively small amount, especially considering the time and effort from the many committers before me. Another thing to consider is that NHibernate is more than just the committers ... the community who spend time answering questions in the users group contribute just as much as committers. Wouldn't they deserve to be paid too? I like the idea of having a fund for things the project might need. If not for servers, then for anything else we might need (a web designer to make the NhForge look as nice as the jQuery site http://forum.jquery.com/#chome? We really should steal/borrow those nice icons at the top of the page) ... or I liked the idea of mugs n t-shirts. Oh ... and ... as a contractor in the UK ... don't even get me started on TAX!! From: Ayende Rahien Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 10:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [nhibernate-development] NHibernate donation campaign On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Fabio Maulo <[email protected]> wrote: and sine when to donate time is different than donate money ? Wasn't Steve's time paid ? Sergej was hired (probably as Steve is a iMeta's employee), sure, and that is a little bit different than donate and receive an invoice. Suppositions: Tomorrow the XYZ company is available to pay 3 months of Richard's time to work in NH. After tomorrow the ZYX company is available to pay 3 weeks of Tuna's time to work in NH. ranlix company is available to spent 3 days of Davy's time to fix something or develop a new feature.
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