* John Hasler (jhasler@debian.org) wrote: > Stephen Frost writes: > > Interesting question, I imagine it would have to be SPI on behalf of > > Debian. > > But which specific individual would do the selling? It would involve a > significant amount of work even if as much as possible was contracted out. Oh, I dunno, whomever wants to. The question was more of 'should Debian let it's developers do this as part of Debian (as opposted to outside of Debian)' or not. > > That's an interesting point. I guess what I was thinking was more like > > "would Debian/SPI be willing to set up the mechanism to allow for > > pay-per-bug". One of the options of that, on a per-developer basis, > > could be "do you want the funds to go to you, or be a donation to SPI?". > > If companies want to pay DDs directly for fixing bugs, that's fine. > However, I don't think Debian should ever disburse money to developers for > doing Debian software work. I wasn't actually suggesting that. I was suggesting that Debian might set up a mechanism whereby a company could ask for a bug to be fixed and then be told who to pay once it is (either said developer, with name and address, or to SPI as a donation by said developer). I didn't mean to suggest that SPI would collect the money and then pay it out to the developer. Stephen
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