> > I do not think you will get very far trying to ransom your bug fixes. > I get that Kickstarter/etc. is great for new/potential projects, but > you're basically saying "well, I already built/fixed this, but crap, it > would have been nice to get paid for it...".
I can appreciate how it might seem that way, but I hope you can appreciate the fact that I had to actually build it first in order to know if it's achievable. It's more like "I already built this for myself, but I want to raise money in order to modify it for general consumption and maintain it thereafter, because I don't want to spend so much extra time working on something that people don't really care about." On Saturday, July 20, 2013 1:12:03 AM UTC-4, Stephen Haberman wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > > By the way, who wants to try it? Please get it touch with me (alex > > at typeracer.com), and I will email you my patch so you can see for > > yourself how awesome it is. > > Instead of emailing a patch, how about just uploading it here: > > https://gwt-review.googlesource.com/#/ > > I do not think you will get very far trying to ransom your bug fixes. > > I get that Kickstarter/etc. is great for new/potential projects, but > you're basically saying "well, I already built/fixed this, but crap, it > would have been nice to get paid for it...". That's not really how open > source works. > > And, FWIW, if you're serious about crowdsourcing some GWT compiler > consulting, I think the "GWT moonshot" concept would be much sexier and > (relatively) more likely to get funded. Granted, it is also more work. > > - Stephen > > -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-web-toolkit-contributors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
