Marc Haber <mh+debian-proj...@zugschlus.de> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 06:19:21PM +0200, Harald Geyer wrote: > > Well, after the dunc-tank desaster I started to recommend to people > > not to donate any money to debian at all but to upstreams instead, > > because "debian has more money than it needs and giving more money to > > debian only will cause DDs to start arguing about it and effectively > > distracting them from working on the distro." > > Did you actually do this while wearing a Debian shirt on a Debian booth?
Hm, IIRC I didn't work on any booth after dunc-tank, so most probably not... Still I got asked several times how to donate to debian after helping people with problems or just because people know that I'm familiar with debian. > > Anyway, the feedback I got after recommending donations to upstreams > > was mostly that people generally don't know which upstreams need them > > and actually would do something useful with it. > > The canonical answer would be "take the bug or wishlist item that you > would love to have fixed, locate the program's author, donate to him > with a strong suggestion that you would really like to see your pet > bug or wishlist item fixed". Sure, that's a possible answer, but sometimes not the most helpful one. Well, all I wanted to point out was: Just because people donate money to debian and not to upstreams doesn't imply that they would object if debian did support some upstreams with money. > Personally, working on Debian is a very big gratification for me. > Maybe a better one that other things I do for money or am forced to do > for free. I can very much understand that feeling, but I don't see how that's related to the question of supporting upstreams... Harald -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org