From dev-return-4350-archive-asf-public=cust-asf.ponee.io@groovy.apache.org Sat Mar 10 18:50:30 2018 Return-Path: X-Original-To: archive-asf-public@cust-asf.ponee.io Delivered-To: archive-asf-public@cust-asf.ponee.io Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by mx-eu-01.ponee.io (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CD96180676 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 18:50:29 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 42662 invoked by uid 500); 10 Mar 2018 17:50:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@groovy.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: dev@groovy.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list dev@groovy.apache.org Received: (qmail 42118 invoked by uid 99); 10 Mar 2018 17:50:27 -0000 Received: from pnap-us-west-generic-nat.apache.org (HELO spamd2-us-west.apache.org) (209.188.14.142) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 17:50:27 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spamd2-us-west.apache.org (ASF Mail Server at spamd2-us-west.apache.org) with ESMTP id 5148A1A4F27; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 17:50:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at spamd2-us-west.apache.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.721 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.721 tagged_above=-999 required=6.31 tests=[RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=-0.01, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=-0.01, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=disabled Received: from mx1-lw-eu.apache.org ([10.40.0.8]) by localhost (spamd2-us-west.apache.org [10.40.0.9]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id inB4b2QE1n96; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 17:50:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx16lb.world4you.com (mx16lb.world4you.com [81.19.149.126]) by mx1-lw-eu.apache.org (ASF Mail Server at mx1-lw-eu.apache.org) with ESMTPS id 899B55F30B; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 17:50:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [84.112.214.51] (helo=[192.168.0.24]) by mx16lb.world4you.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1euidU-0002On-1o; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 18:50:24 +0100 To: users@groovy.apache.org Cc: dev@groovy.apache.org From: MG Subject: Fund Groovy Development - Jira Task Message-ID: <37c8c4f5-51be-e2d9-65c0-6837f857f732@arscreat.com> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 18:50:22 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-SA-Do-Not-Run: Yes X-AV-Do-Run: Yes X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 84.112.214.51 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mgbiz@arscreat.com X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on mx16lb.world4you.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Hi Groovy enthusiasts !-) after having thought about the topic of "putting some money where your mouth is and help fund Groovy development" some more, and taking into consideration what people have suggested, I have created a (somewhat experimental) Jira task* where people can pledge bounties for Groovy features/fixes they woud like to support: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8503 I have added bounties for some ares that I would like to see Groovy to grow in - feel free to suggest additional features/fixes, or pledge for existing ones. Please make sure beforehand there has been at least some sort of discussion about and some tentative agreement on possible ways forward for the topic you would like to advance on this mailing list. There is not much sense in cluttering the Jira task with pledges for features no one of the main contributors think are feasible, a good idea - or who have been outright rejected at this point :-) I think it is easiest for people to pledge in "their" currency (Euro in my case), so they do not incur any exchange rate uncertainties. I also feel the minimum amount pledged should be in the 10 USD/EUR area, based on that if we have a lot of people pledging smaller amounts, the Jira task is definitely not the right approach. All of this is of course open for discussion... :-) Regular (monthly) Groovy funding is a topic for another post - for now I have added a generic "Make Groovy Java 9 compatible" topic at the top of the funding table in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8503. Cheers, mg *I think we should see if this appoach does not suffice, before going down the route of a Kickstarter/Indiegogo/tribe.taiga.io/bountysource.com/Patroon/fundrequest.io - thank you to anyone who suggested/commented on this topic :-)