Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund for specific development?

[Filip M Gieszczykiewicz]

You (Philip Webb) wrote:
> surely lynx-dev's problems are TIME, not money:

Hmm.. only probably true for the existing developers (Klaus, Fote, and TD)
What no $ means is that no one better than your average-hacker gets
interested in lynx... Don't get me wrong, hacks with patch source
are a good start... but, looking at the sources lately, about 0% of
my original multi-bookmarks code remains... that's because someone
Damn-Good(tm) redid it The Right Way(tm)... something I could not
dream of doing myself. How about at least getting someone to rework
submitted features into something bug-free and resilient?

>  USD 50  wouldn't buy  1 hr  of a good programmer's time.

Hmm.. but if you multiply that by a half dozen (??)... it might
approach what Fote and TD charge for an hour :-)  I know what you
mean, though.

> it's basic for people to try to be reliable & encouraging to one another,
> so that everyone is that much more likely to donate time;
> at present, TD is shouldering the whole ac-#xxx burden
> in the absence of Klaus (my guess for him remains a sick parent)
> & the habitual intermittence of Fote;
> so TD needs encouraging words: if someone wants to give him  USD 50 ,
> it wouldn't be upto anyone else to comment,
> but i'ld say a fair monetary return for his work would be far more
> than the lynx-dev co-op is likely to be able to afford;
> the same is true of any of the other contributors.
> Lynx, love it or leave it?

At this point... I'm "content" but restless and worried. That's the
major reason for my suggestion... perhaps the delusion that thowing
some money at some key people might get some of the bigger ToDo's
done when right now there is no real incentive...(because of limited
time, lack of a clear and directed plan of attack - hell, how exactly
do you rewrite the HTML parser to allow for deciphering of tables?,
and other things being more urgent). Maybe I'm worried about nothing?
I like lynx *A LOT*... I almost never use Netscrape or MSIE... never
at all from home... markup predominantly for lynx... push lynx support
at sites that are lacking, etc. And it doesn't do tables... Grrr.....

Ok, just ignore me. :-)

Take care.