[$] Paying (some) Debian developers
In an offshoot of the Debian discussion we looked at last week, the Debian project has
been discussing the idea of paying developers to work on the distribution.
There is some history behind the idea, going back to the controversial Dunc-Tank initiative in 2006,
but some think attitudes toward funding developers may have changed—or that
a new
approach might be better accepted. While it is playing out with regard to
Debian right now, it is a topic that other projects have struggled with
along the
way—and surely will again.