Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations system: pay for a feature

Hello Carlo,

Le jeudi 16 mai 2013 à 09:09 +0200, Carlo Strata a écrit :
> Hi Everyone,
>
> in any case (!) none has answered to my initial question and moreover 
> has to be avoided changing the thread object and throw away one person's 
> suggest or a simply discuss. So that now I have to renew my question 
> with another all new post!!! Thank you!
>
> [OT] I have donate to LibreOffice some money and sure many of my time 
> since 28.09.2010 to spread his use, to make it in mind to many people in 
> Italy and in my local engineer professional association.

Thank you a lot BTW!

> In any case I think that resources like University Students, Google SoC, 
> ... are and remain useful to both sides ;-) (TDF/Community/Users and 
> Students themselfes).
>
> I also want to find an approved new feature list in TDF or LibreOffice 
> site...

I think we do have what you are looking for:
https://www.libreoffice.org/features/ (and linked pages from there)
https://www.libreoffice.org/index.php/download/4-0-new-features-and-fixes/

and of course, the wiki pages:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.0

Hope this helps,

Charles.


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>
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> Il 16/05/2013 01.58, Steve Edmonds ha scritto:
> > On 2013-05-16 07:45, Joel Madero wrote:
> > > > > Any payments and/or donations must be accounted for and if the person
> > > > paying has any intent it to go to xyz, then by regulations we may 
> > > > need to
> > > > account for that payment/donation and where it went to.
> > > >
> > > > That is the real problem with targeted donations and payments.  
> > > > There will
> > > > be a mess in paperwork to deal with it.  Opt in, opt out, What it 
> > > > was used
> > > > for.  Keeping track of all of who pays what, for what, can cost more 
> > > > than
> > > > thepayment in paperwork and legal fees.
> > >
> > > This has been discussed quite a bit on user list and brought up 
> > > during ESC
> > > at some point and I thought the consensus was "we'll just let them do 
> > > what
> > > they want" and not endorse, support, etc... any of that. I thought that
> > > kept us out of legal muddy waters. It'd be similar to me just going to a
> > > friend who is a programmer and saying "dude, can I pay you $100 to 
> > > fix this
> > > issue" - a contract completely out of TDF's hands.
> > >
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Joel
> > Would this paid for feature not then create a fork in the code, then 
> > are you committing to maintaining that branch until some time (may be 
> > never) that the branch feature is voted into the main code base. It 
> > seems a bit impractical when you have a continually evolving product 
> > to pay to add a feature unless you are assured it will be included in 
> > the main code base and maintained.
> > Steve


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