year end, already !

[Neil Williams]

On Sunday 27 March 2005 4:27 pm, David J Patrick wrote:
> Isn't it time gnuCash got a sugar-daddy ??

Personally, I'd say no. Making GnuCash into a commercial operation would not 
get me producing a single line of extra code. Why should paying the 
developers magically produce more code? It just introduces deadlines and 
skews the direction of the program to toe the sponsor's line.

However, if your idea was to get a sponsor to provide the *support* and take 
at least some of that off Derek's shoulders, I could see that being 
beneficial.

Using current developer time more efficiently is certainly worthwhile. 

> It's a great piece of software, arguably in the most-important-app
> category. It's success lowers the adoption threshold, of linux, SURELY
> some bright light at some big company will see that the project is great

They do see the merits of applications like GnuCash.

> but needs some husbanding.

Does it? It may need more development time but the leadership of the project 
is not, IMHO, in need of any help. There are practical things that need to be 
done to improve development speed but those are things like bug triage, 
documentation, contributing on the mailing lists, keeping the Wiki updated.

> Might we mount an "adopt-an-application" campaign ? Y'know; say it with
> money, enough of it, and on-going !

IMHO, money is neither the problem nor the solution to the RFE. Why do people 
assume so?

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