As far as where the money is going it is very clear:
“We will spend the money in our development and web servers. It is also our
goal to receive enough funds to sustain the main development team, so in the
future they will be able to work full time on the project as they main or
only job.”
As far as how much he is pulling in it is relatively clear:
It's about: $16,000 USD / year between memberships and donations.
What more is there to know?
There is not enough to pay a lead developer. Until you solve that problem
Trisquel will always be a one man show. There are no other volunteers that
have shown themselves capable and willing (first to be true; the later may
not to my knowledge). The only person that I know *is* willing to do
something should things go south is myself and I have another job too. Right
now I'd be in the same position as Rubén.
If the contributions exceed $50,000 USD then there is some argument as to
where the money is going.
There is somewhat of a roadmap that volunteers have been editing:
http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/roadmap
There is also documentation on building Trisquel:
http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-trisquel-made
There is also a build script:
http://bzr.trisquel.info/makeiso/trunk/annotate/head%3A/makeiso.sh
You can also download the sources for various components like abrowser:
http://packages.trisquel.info/brigantia/abrowser
Now. What are we missing should Rubén disappear? The domain? There is enough
documentation for Trisquel to be built from scratch by someone else. What we
don't have is the funds to make sure someone can do it (make it worth there
time). Rubén has graciously given his time to the project. And we can't
even support him. What we can do is complain about the lack of documentation
and willingness to let others "in".
Yet- he has posted instructions on how to reach him:
http://trisquel.info/en/faq#n1867
And I can confirm he does respond (to the extent that any other project
leader does and then some). He has fixed numerous free software related bugs
and the only thing he hasn't responded to are issues that nobody has
contacted him about (as far as I'm aware).
To say all he cares about is money is non-sense. Your confusing what I think
is the real issue (to fix organizational problems). Rubén has made no push
to increase the funds available to him. This has solely been the cause of
other people here (one being myself).
There are reasonable concerns regarding the structure. However these are
minor in comparison to the financial issue. If you solve the financial issue
then Rubén can focus on things like this (making sure the domain doesn't get
gobbled up).
