If we get no donations, we are unable to spend large amounts of time on it, and we will have to peck away at it in our spare time. If you want to see less "sluggishness" (i.e. more time allocated), then donate. If you haven't donated you have absolutely no room to manoeuvre in this discussion.
I am confused by this statement. Assuming the dev team has full time jobs and works on XMR part time as stated above (and is obvious from the slow progress), how are donations going to help them spend more time on this? Lets say you get $50,000 USD worth of donations. Spread among 5 or 6 people, that is going to be around $10,000 each. No way does that help anyone quit their day job to spend more time on this. So I would love to donate and help accelerate XMR progress, but I also want to understand how a donation is going to help accelerate progress before I do.
There's a lot of work done by non-core members. tewinget, mike, zone, neozaru, the i2p guys etc... either financed by bounties or the core team.
Check the GUI bounty thread, its nearly all donations from the core team.
Pledged bounty:
- Tacotime, 500 XMR
- Smooth, 500 XMR
- NoodleDoodle, 1000 XMR
- eizh, 100 XMR
- David Latapie, 12 XMR
- ficklepickle, 5000 MINT
- mickey_miner, 500 XMR
- dnaleor, 10 XMR
- wallet42, 42 XMR
or the pool bounty:
Pledged Bounty:
- TacoTime, 1000 MRO
- Smooth, 1000 MRO
- NoodleDoodle, 2000 MRO
- David Latapie. 25 MRO
- surfer43, 200k BCN
- mickey_miner, 500 MRO
- eizh, 400 MRO
- dnaleor, 20 MRO
- GreekBitcoin, 17 MRO
- tifozi, 100 MRO
- othe, 502 MRO
- DStrange, 0.3 BTC, 5M BCN
- Cheesus, 1M BCN
I am for example self-employed/freelancing, so is fluffy and others. I devote as much time as i can to Monero but i still have to make a living and pay my rent.
Not a cent of the donation money will land into the core teams pockets, the donations are all used for external projects.
Do not treat the core development team as if we were a commercial company that sold you a software library. That is not how open source works; if you are making a profit using the software, you are expected to help develop, debug, test, and review it.
- Gavin Andresen (Bitcoin)
Reacting to recent comments and in order to support the monero devs and community, we have decided to donate 20% from our pools fee to the core-dev team.
