Re: Make

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Kannan Goundan <kannan@cakoose.com> writes:

> Thanks for the explanation.  I didn't realize some projects don't want to
> initialize all their submodules, but the explicit opt-in idea you described
> sounds nice.
>
> I've seen cases where people will financially "sponsor" feature development
> in open source projects.  Is there any precedent for this in the Git
> project?  Is it ok to use this mailing list to ask about such things?

We are unfortunately not set up to handle money well.  For a
background explanation, please go read [*1*], which I wrote my take
on "money" some time ago.  Note that it is an explanation and not a
justification.  It explains why we are not set up to handle money
well and what the issues around money that are troublesome for the
project are.  It does not mean to say that it is a good thing that
it is hard to buy feature with money from our project [*2*].

I do not see (and back then in the discussion I do not think anybody
saw) how we can make "We, a sponsoring company, pay this money to
the project to fund effort Y." work well.  But that of course does
not mean it is impossible to make it work--somebody with a fresh
perspective may come up a way to do so, and that would be a very
welcome development.


[Footnote/Reference]

*1* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/264993/focus=265215

*2* Just like my message that you are responding to was an
    explanation of the reason why we do not recurse and and
    initialize all submodules by default.