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Sandboxie Plus & Classic
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Add donation bounties #173

Closed lwcorp closed 2 years ago

lwcorp commented 3 years ago

Following #164, I'll be more specific - how about adding donation bounties instead of accepting general donations (with optional private notes)? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_bounty.

DavidXanatos commented 3 years ago

I don't know if that would work well, I'm under the impression that the majority of Sbie users just wants it to work as it did for the last decade or so.

Fixing compatibility bugs or worse security issues only after waiting long enough to reach a bounty does not sound like a very user friendly approach, as booth are somewhat time critical.

A general approach donate regularly to the project and I'll fix broken things as soon as I can seams more user friendly.

But for new features I could try something like that, do you have any particular platform in mind? I think with patreon I could only set goals like xxx@/month or so but not a enter xxx€, one time to get something done.

lwcorp commented 3 years ago

Maybe one of the sites mentioned in the aforementioned Wikipedia link?

Dyras commented 3 years ago

Personally, I think what the Patreon needs is a short and concise description of what every tool does. I think that would be an incentive to sign up. As it is now, you kind of have to click around to see what they do.

Maybe under "About us"?

HikariWS commented 3 years ago

I've been using Sandboxie for many years.

Indeed the top priority is to enhance its compatibility as one of its primitives is to be transparent to all apps that run on a sandbox (as opposed to Windows Sandbox which requires apps to explicitly support it, which most probably requires some architecture overhaul, including split the app in at least 2 processes and a full review of what resources each process accesses).

It's much harder to support all kinds of resources handling and WinAPI calls than to just demand each software to be mostly rebuilt and blame them when something breaks while sandboxed lol

I've always had trouble running games on sandboxes, in example. Another need is to support Win7 and above features and APIs, as Sandboxie has barely had fixes on last years, for sure it doesn't support latest Windows stuff and I'm glad it just still works.

Of course new features are great. But without first fixing compatibility issues and bugs, new features just increase the chance of these issues getting worse and new issues arriving.

isaak654 commented 3 years ago

In order to gain more visibility, I think GitHub Sponsors program could help: https://github.com/sponsors

DavidXanatos commented 2 years ago

Is there any simple platform suitable for this that is: put in a list of features, set out a minimum cost per feature and no upper limit. Such that the most demanded features can be done first. The usual platforms I have seen are more guided towards integral projects, i.e. something with a basic goals and then some additional milestones. So its a linear progression scheme. While here we want something parallel, with many goals and arbitrary order of implementation.