[bugzilla] donate to sponsoring bug

[Ben Klein]

2009/9/22 Tom Wickline <twickline at gmail.com>:
> What about a hybrid Donate/Pledge box? I'm aware there is a Donate section
> on the main site. But could this somehow be Incorporated into the rest of
> the site?
> Bugs and Apps DB or would it just be tacky :)

The real issue is that anything that *looks* (to a normal user) like
"give money and get your bug fixed" is not going to be good for the
Wine project. That includes pledges. If money is given or pledged for
a bug that remains unfixed for x amount of time, users will get
stroppy and in the worst cases abandon the Wine project. This is the
most likely outcome of per-bug donations and pledges.

Regardless, pledges simply don't solve the administration issue of who
gets the money. Developers working on bugs with pledges would no doubt
feel entitled to it. THIS is where the admin nightmare resides.