Author: Jaco van der Schyff Date: To: B. Johannessen CC: exim-dev Subject: Re: [exim-dev] Development blockage...
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 07:15:06PM +0200, B. Johannessen wrote: > Suggestion 3: Organise triage team tasked with maintaining a prioritised
> list of verified bugs.
>
> That leaves the "wish-list" bugs. To be honest I don't really care to
> much about those. Exim is already an extremely useful tool to a great
> number of people, and I'm sad to say that the attitude of people making
> requests over the past few years has gone from bad to worse. Maybe it'd
> be possible to organise some sort of reverse auction / fund raiser for
> requesters to pledge funding for developing the requested features. If
> not, I'd be happy to "scratch my own itches" and contribute code that
> solves *my* issues. I have a feeling that's how most of Exim came about
> anyway...
There is Google's summer of code aswell. If a (mentoring) organisation
could be set-up, the fund raising issue could be rationalized by Google
paying the respective bounties ?