On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 07:53:42AM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Donations from end-users are highly likely to go mainly to highly > visible projects, such as Firefox/Iceweasel and LibreOffice. But doesn't this problem already exist with the status quo? Let's assume that Firefox, LibreOffice, FSF, and Piuparts all solicit donations upstream. Some of them will be more visible and, more generally, better than others at doing so. They will get more money even if, according to your own judgement, they "deserve" less. That's the basic unfairness of any opt-in donation mechanism. A mechanism that makes it easier, via a more consistent interface / better tooling, to donate to recipients that *already* seek for donations, doesn't solve that problem. But AFAICT it doesn't make it worse either. On the other hand, I agree as well that something like this is no longer Debian-specific, and should be better discussed / adopted at a cross-distro level, relying on existing standards (e.g. DOAP) if available. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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