Comments on: Mozilla plans to fund developer community

"While we have funds beyond our operating levels, some of it should to go to community members," company CEO says.

[katamari]

Start with US$200K...

You can start by giving back the remaining US$200,000 which was "left over" from the NYT Mozilla Ad Donations.

http://rob-davis.ytmnd.com/

Also, does the "foundations'" desire to give back to the developers mean that more Mozilla bugs can be "justifiably" closed as WONTFIX (or WORKSFORME) -- or will it mean just the opposite?

I'm just curious, as thousands of years have shown us that money is quite an efficient incentive to actually *do work*. Since the "foundation" has had excess funds for quite some time (years upon years), and there are many Mozilla-related bugs which are being ignored, I would've thought that money could have gone to making sure those bugs got addressed + fixed.

Now, by giving money back to the authors (of patches and internal CVS commits), I'm wondering if that will give THEM incentive to go through the gigantic list of existing bugs and actually _solve them_, rather than ignoring them or closing them with WONTFIX or WORKSFORME.

[DerekBronson]

Leftover funds.

In my opinion it would be kind of nifty if he used the money to start a farm somewhere.
A Mozilla farm.
I'm quite sure it'd enlarge the company image as so.
Then if there's still some money left, he could hire professionals to redo the logo to a more "compact" one with less colors, for shorter loading times.

But otherwise I kinda agree with you, JC.

[ramonck]

Support investment is a good idea

Making better standards within the company like making sure ITIL standards are set on Service Desk or maybe just hiring people is a good start. And I don't think that tickets should be closed by the team that's treating the call, maybe after a week without response by the user yes. But other than that I think that the ticket should be left open until the user says so.