Reinke Bonte wrote:
Actually I don't think this is too much of a problem. It's up to the person giving the gift to not give $1000 to one individual but rather $20 to a number of different individuals -- and that amount of money is nothing that one has to feel bad about when receiving it.Moreover, giving money to an individual developer would make me feel bad about the others. I don't even know who developed which feature. I would prefer if there was a way to pay money for a newly developed feature instead.
Also, I think it is not a good idea to couple donations and *features*. Often enough, even developers can't tell who developed which feature. Additionally, if a particular developer decides to start working on a particular feature, it is not at all clear whether he will actually finish that feature -- or whether he will simply stop in the middle of the work, or whether somebody else will finish it or whatever.
Therefore I rather agree with cbbrowne's point of view: If you as a user like the application as-is, and want to give an amount of money, then just pick your favorite developer and give him a gift -- and that's it. There's no obligation involved here: neither for you (like being forced to give money), nor for the developer (like being forced to implement a particular feature). Instead, the gift simply expressed you appreciation for the work that the developer already has invested in the application. And that's it.
Christian
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