Funding someone to fix a few bugs

2006-09-11 Thread George Sexton
Is it permitted to offer to fund someone to fix a few bugs? I have three things I'd like to see fixed. One trivial, and two non-trivial. As background, I'm using tomcat to host our web calendar software. I'm currently running some 300+ virtual hosts in one instance of tomcat. I add or remove

Re: Funding someone to fix a few bugs

2006-09-11 Thread Filip Hanik - Dev Lists
George Sexton wrote: Is it permitted to offer to fund someone to fix a few bugs? I have three things I'd like to see fixed. One trivial, and two non-trivial. I don't see this as a problem, all ASF committers are being funded somehow to enable them to do their contributions here. Some work for

Re: Funding someone to fix a few bugs

2006-09-11 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hi, George Sexton wrote: Is it permitted to offer to fund someone to fix a few bugs? I have three things I'd like to see fixed. One trivial, and two non-trivial. I'm not sure, but I'm not aware of precedents, and I am aware of some discussion against this idea. On 9/11/06, Filip Hanik -

Re: Funding someone to fix a few bugs

2006-09-11 Thread George Sexton
Yoav Shapira wrote: Hi, George Sexton wrote: Is it permitted to offer to fund someone to fix a few bugs? I have three things I'd like to see fixed. One trivial, and two non-trivial. I'm not sure, but I'm not aware of precedents, and I am aware of some discussion against this idea. I really

Re: Funding someone to fix a few bugs

2006-09-11 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hi, On 9/11/06, Filip Hanik - Dev Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so you fund your own time, that the whole point. Someone, and always someone funds your time here. Be it yourself, a company or something else If you think my working on something on my own time, on my own equipment, without

Re: Funding someone to fix a few bugs

2006-09-11 Thread Filip Hanik - Dev Lists
Yoav Shapira wrote: Hi, On 9/11/06, Filip Hanik - Dev Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so you fund your own time, that the whole point. Someone, and always someone funds your time here. Be it yourself, a company or something else If you think my working on something on my own time, on my own

Re: Funding someone to fix a few bugs

2006-09-11 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hi, I think this is getting philosophical and off-topic... On 9/11/06, Filip Hanik - Dev Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: he he, we all have, including you, received money for consulting services due to our association and skillset gained from the ASF. Sure I have, and like I said I'm not

Re: Funding someone to fix a few bugs

2006-09-11 Thread Filip Hanik - Dev Lists
Yoav Shapira wrote: Hi, I think this is getting philosophical and off-topic... On 9/11/06, Filip Hanik - Dev Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: he he, we all have, including you, received money for consulting services due to our association and skillset gained from the ASF. Sure I have, and like

Re: Funding someone to fix a few bugs

2006-09-11 Thread Yoav Shapira
Yup, all agreed with what you said below. Yoav On 9/11/06, Filip Hanik - Dev Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yoav Shapira wrote: Hi, I think this is getting philosophical and off-topic... On 9/11/06, Filip Hanik - Dev Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: he he, we all have, including you,