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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23/11/2013 6:58 AM, Robert Goldman
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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 11:40:53 -0500
From: Irving Reid <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:irving@mozilla.com"><irving@mozilla.com></a>
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tb-planning@mozilla.org">tb-planning@mozilla.org</a>
Subject: Re: Proposal for donation link in Thunderbird 31
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I'm concerned about any plan that lets users put $$ on specific bugs.
Our biggest hindrance isn't so much money as it is availability of
people with both time and expertise to fix even the most pressing issues
in our backlog. Per-bug money might attract some time & expertise, but
I'd be surprised if it's enough to be sustainable, and it's likely to
come with unrealistic expectations.
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As a possible contributor, what *are* realistic expectations I should have?
If realistic means "I get no say whatsoever about which bugs get fixed,"
then being realistic is a pretty big disincentive to donation.
If there is a project with a strong "central tendency" that aligns with
my use of the product, then I'm happy to donate to support it.
OTOH, if the volunteers who work on a project aren't interested in the
bugs/features that are critical to my use case, or focus on a particular
platform over another, then I probably won't donate.</pre>
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If you want control it is fairly simple really, hire someone to do
the work you want done. No involvement with donations, Mozilla or
anyone else here. The worst case scenario is you end up with a fork
of Thunderbird that does what you want. But my reading of what is
going on is that the module owners are fairly easy to get along with
with regards to new features and particularly bug fixes.<br>
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The "project" needs funds, if you do not wish to contribute to that
general fund in favour of funding your own developer fine, but I
hope others see the value in the "project" and not just a way to buy
a priority vote for a feature.<br>
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I would however be most interested in hearing from Mozilla on why
they choose not to eat their own dogfood. <br>
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Matt<br>
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