<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:04 PM, DaVince <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wineforum-user@winehq.org">wineforum-user@winehq.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It seems really pushy to put a donate button inside the software. I'm sure that most major donators would do so from the site, anyway, plus there's CodeWeavers which is basically just a company with paid employees devoted to improving Wine.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>I agree that putting donate buttons inside the app makes it look a little trashy (like 90s shareware) but I've another idea.<br><br>Perhaps users could set bounties on bugs, whereby they agree to pay x amount if a certain bug is fixed in a timely manor. Once fixed the money is taken from the bounty setter(s - there could be more than one person willing to pay for a fix) and given to the project and/or the developer(s) responsible for getting the patches in.<br>
<br>This could have adverse effects on certain aspects of the project but it would encourage developers to focus on things people want enough to pay for and give them something back for their spent time.<br>