Re: [evince] Fwd: Kickstarter campaign for annotation support in evince and poppler-glib

[Martin Spacek <gmane mspacek mm st>]

Thanks for the reply Jose, and sorry for the long delay.

> Text Annotations are already there. There are some basic bugs to fix before
> highlighting can be added, but that are more of implementation details... I
> believe you could do your campaign in term of features, like having highlighting
> support... having multimedia support, etc. and assign some bounties... I don't
> know, it's up to you. I also know that sometimes people are contracted from some
> companies with gnome knowledge to do some work. (See planet.gnome.org
> <http://planet.gnome.org> for some recent news about some funded-driven
> developments)

OK, so we should probably focus on open bounties instead of time-limited 
fundraisers. I couldn't find anything on http://planet.gnome.org regarding how 
to set up crowdfunding for a gnome project. Is there a specific page somewhere 
on gnome.org?

As I just replied to Hashem's post, there are 3 crowdfunding sites that I know 
of that are tailored towards open-source software: http://bountysource.com, 
http://catincan.com, http://freedomsponsors.org

Only bountysource and freedomsponsors seem to support open bounties.

> That's the issue actually. Currently we have some new contributors and therefore
> maybe among them the will be someone interested in claiming a bounty.

Is there an up-to-date list of contributors, or could one be put together? Do 
they all read the list regularly?

> Well, evince maintainers are  Carlos García and Christian Persch, So  at the
> end, the code must have his/their  approval. I don't see any problem or conflict
> in the way things work currently... Like, the code must be merged in order to
> claim the bounty, and thus you need to pass through the normal review process.

Yes, bountysource and catincan both require the code to be merged before paying 
out. Freedomsponsors is less structured.
> ...Btw, I believe
> that people doing the accesibility work are being paid to work on evince and
> it's working alright. It was like that on early accesibility support which was
> paid by the Junta de Andalucia

Andalucia! I really enjoyed my time there 14 years ago :) Might the Junta be 
interested in improving PDF annotation support?