[off-topic] Re: Automatic e-mail notification when someone raises a P1/Blocker

[J. Paul Reed]

On 12 Jul 2003 at 20:51:00, Jason Pyeron moved bits on my disk to say:

> Who and how can money be taken in for this?
> 
> Can a consulting firm discuss with a committee to get a price, how can such 
> a committee be formed? where do the funds go? What do they get use for?
> 
> random thought of the day.

Typically, the way it's done (with any open source-type project, really) is
a company will contract with someone who's (often already) a member of the
core development team, with the intention of having the code they pay to be
developed go through the normal peer review and integration process, so it
gets checked into the standard tree, and thus will be supported by the
team, officially and in perpetuity.

If a company wants changes they don't want to donate back to the project
(or that the project is unwilling to accept for whatever reason), then the
company has to make a decision on whether or not to employ that contractor
to make patches for the currently released version of the product, and
leave it at that, or employ the contractor long-term to keep the patch
synced with project's releases.

As for the logistics, it's a private business relationship, so anyone who
wants to offer those services can charge whatever they want and set it up
however they want with the entity wanting to purchase the services.

See http://www.bugzilla.org/consulting.html.

> PS. Paul, go for it but I don't think that Paul would pay, or at least be
> able to pay due to internal poulticing.

Never hurts to try. ;-)

Later,
Paul
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