On Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 9:50 AM MG, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Groovy enthusiasts !-) > > after having thought about the topic of "putting some money where your > mouth is and help fund Groovy development" some more, and taking into > consideration what people have suggested, I have created a (somewhat > experimental) Jira task* where people can pledge bounties for Groovy > features/fixes they woud like to support: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8503 > > I have added bounties for some ares that I would like to see Groovy to > grow in - feel free to suggest additional features/fixes, or pledge for > existing ones. > > Please make sure beforehand there has been at least some sort of > discussion about and some tentative agreement on possible ways forward > for the topic you would like to advance on this mailing list. There is > not much sense in cluttering the Jira task with pledges for features no > one of the main contributors think are feasible, a good idea - or who > have been outright rejected at this point :-) > > I think it is easiest for people to pledge in "their" currency (Euro in > my case), so they do not incur any exchange rate uncertainties. > I also feel the minimum amount pledged should be in the 10 USD/EUR area, > based on that if we have a lot of people pledging smaller amounts, the > Jira task is definitely not the right approach. > All of this is of course open for discussion... :-) > > Regular (monthly) Groovy funding is a topic for another post - for now I > have added a generic "Make Groovy Java 9 compatible" topic at the top of > the funding table in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8503. > > Cheers, > mg > > *I think we should see if this appoach does not suffice, before going > down the route of a > Kickstarter/Indiegogo/ > tribe.taiga.io/bountysource.com/Patroon/fundrequest.io > - thank you to anyone who suggested/commented on this topic :-) > > > > > > > > > >
