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On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Gabor Szabo <szabgab@gmail.com> wrote: > What do you think about the rest of the idea? Would this work within > he p5p? Would there be people who cold implement reasonable features > for money? Would such mechanism be good for p5p and for Perl in > general? I think it would be useful to know what development directions might be valued. However -- I worry about a potential "chilling effect" that substantial paid work would have on the willingness of volunteers to do unpaid work. Too much paid work could make Perl core development revolve around a "financial economy" instead of an "altruism economy". I think grants of the sort that Dave Mitchell is working on are different -- in this case, he's working on long-standing, complex (and often socially unrewarding) issues that history has shown that volunteers are not getting around to doing. That's very different in kind than paying some people to develop new, cool things while not paying other people who are also developing new, cool things. So I would recommend separating the issues. What would companies find valuable? Would companies be willing to contribute to a "core maintenance fund" for TPF to distribute for bug-fix grants along the lines of the current one? -- DavidThread Previous | Thread Next