Re: Getting more developers (was Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx v2.7.2 release)

[Filip M Gieszczykiewicz]

You (Andrew Kuchling) wrote:
>       Lynx is suffering badly from a lack of developers; there
> aren't very many people working on it--Foteos, Thomas Dickey, the
> intermittently-available Klaus Weide are the primary ones (apologies
> to anyone I've forgotten), along with people who make occasional
> contributions--and most of the critical things on the TODO list, such
> as table support, CSS, scripting, would be very labour-intensive,
> requiring significant amounts of new code and restructuring of
> existing code.  FM, TD, and KW don't have the time to do these large
> projects.  I have no idea how to encourage people to hack on Lynx,
> unfortunately.

That's the key .. the TODO items require time, intelligence, and
proficiency in C. I am rather happy with what lynx IS now. It does
what I need, sans tables. But those I can usually figure out by
doing the parsing in my head from source ;-) ;-) ;-) I lack C-
ability to do something about it... but would be willing to pop
down $50 towards someone honest doing it for the benefit of all.
Maybe that's the solution : we may not be all rich but we do
want a good product that keeps abreast of the changes in the
real world (what we think of those changes is irrelevant). Maybe
setup a fund? Make lynx nonprofit and might be able to attract
some tax-writeoff donations?

And I am serious about the fifty bux :-)

Take care.