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what motivates people to submit patches anyway?
- From: "David Nicol" <davidnicol at gmail dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:56:55 -0500
- Subject: what motivates people to submit patches anyway?
Not off topic, in response to thread about Goobles, and the contest to collect
Goobles towards the purely symbolic end of becoming GCC Grand Poobah -- does
this person get their own parking space? E-mail for poobah@gnu.org forwarded to
them during thge duration of their reign?
i think if direct benefits were engineered somehow -- even symbolicly,
which they are,
but more explicitly symbolicly -- there might be more better patches.
Until someone
comes up with a way to organize open-source projects as revenue
generators -- even
if only as t-shirt stores, with revenues from the t-shirts shared
according to a decaying
contribution share model -- an easy way to divide up the pie, no
matter how small --
apathy will continue to reign.
speaking very generally here, all volunteer-staffed best-efforts
software projects
share these kinds of problems.