Sponsor a feature

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

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.

Codeweavers <http://www.codeweavers.com/> -who sell software to run  
Windows apps on Linux and MacOS- use a similar model, where you can  
pledge money for the support of a windows application you are  
interested in.  They use pledges together with a voting system  
available to registered users to determine which Windows features and  
apps to work on.

Manuel

> -----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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