Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

Darryl L. Pierce mcpierce at gmail.com
Wed Jul 24 12:15:11 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 01:50:11AM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
<snip>
> Obvious we cannot have crowd funding for every moving part in Fedora
> that would just be ludicrous so we need to apply that concept upon
> the entire project, as in Fedora would be just a one crowd founded
> project.
<snip>

The first issue that comes to mind (for me) is "who cuts the checks"?
IOW, who is going to be the person responsible for the money itself, and
who has oversight to ensure money's being properly managed and not
siphoned off?

Who decides how much gets paid for a bug bounty?

What do we do if we have no funds? Do we want bug fixes to become a paid
thing, and wouldn't that be a disinsentive if we were to have no money?

What if upstream introduces bugs so they can then get paid to fix them?

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