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).
|
| > [1] http://www.vim.org/sponsor/index.php
|
| So this is actually paying to be able to vote, rather than the more
| common "pledging money for the fixer of particular bugs", as I
| understand it.

Just so.  I'm not actually advocating it, but I thought it was an interesting model, and I'd like to know how well it works in practice.

S