[jeffdavis]

"You don't get to pick what other people work on, unless you pay them."

Tangent: I donated a small amount of money to two PyPy projects (STM and py3k). But I didn't see the donation bars move at all -- at least in the case of STM, I'm almost positive that it didn't move a single dollar after my donation. Do they update those things? If not, it's kind of hard to tell what is sufficiently funded to succeed and what is not.

[dripton]

They do update them, but manually and probably not very often. Looking at commit logs, all three features that have asked for donations have had a lot of work done, but that's different from success.

[fijal]

We don't have a direct access to the funding buttons (it would require quite a bit of work, probably doable though), so we update it every 2 weeks (roughly) when it lands on the bank account. That way we don't have bounced payments to deal with either (and it works easier). Sorry if you're used to real-time donations, but banking is not real time.

[jeffdavis]

Hmm... I figured that at the beginning, but I made the donation around June 10 and I could swear the number for STM is exactly the same as back then.

Maybe I should try to contact them and make sure the donation wasn't lost? But that seems strange, surely others have donated during that time as well.

[fijal]

updated today. sorry for the lag