Sponsor a feature

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Trawling my OCaml folder I came across this useful pointer.  The Vim people prioritise their bugs and features by inviting people to contribute financially.  That's a good indicator of interest, although I have no idea whether it's enough to pay anyone's salary (I rather doubt it).

I'm not suggesting it for GHC (yet!) but it's an interesting model I didn't know about.  Maybe some useful infrastructure too.

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: caml-list-bounces at yquem.inria.fr [mailto:caml-list-bounces at yquem.inria.fr] On Behalf Of David Allsopp
Sent: 30 January 2008 17:42
To: OCaml List
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Re: The OCaml Community (aka back fromthe Developer Days)

...

Vim does this very well with "sponsor a feature"[1] - all you need is a
structured wish-list that people can mark a (financial) interest in. That
way, if you want a feature, and so do other people, then there may be enough
combined sponsorship to pay a (reasonable) amount for it. Bram only requires
enough to pay for a basic salary so he can take time off work.

While I have no idea how many people use Vim, I would imagine that it's
rather fewer than MS Visual Studio suggesting that the finance model
"works".


David

[1] http://www.vim.org/sponsor/index.php

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