Money for Bugzilla development [was: [off-topic] ...]

[J. Paul Reed]

On 12 Jul 2003 at 23:01:14, Joel Peshkin moved bits on my disk to say:

> The team itself need not be for sale just because some of its members
> work for hire.  If we want to make sure of this, we should work out some
> policies to give individual members some guidance on the subject.

Or just go full hog and copy Mozilla's drivers structure.

I would assume that drivers has veto power over anyone's decision if it's
directly financially motiviated, and not good for the project (has this
even ever happened?).

On the one hand, it's nice that Bugzilla hasn't had to deal with this at
all.

On the other, it would be great to follow in the footsteps of Linux and
Mozilla and get corporate sponsorship for Bugzilla and start taking over
the world. ;-) The creation of such a group could be the next natural
evolution of the project.

Of course, it's all worthless if there aren't companies lining up to pay
for features to be put into Bugzilla... and corporate sponsorship hasn't
seemed like a huge issue.

Is it (and I'm missing something)? Should it be? Can developers@ or
reviewers@ do anything to help change reality to those answers, once we
have them? Do we need to?

Has Paul asked enough questions yet?

Later,
Paul
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