[pypy-dev] For Donations, List How Much is Left (or Spent)?

[Donald Stufft]

Hey!

So out of someone complaining about PyPy's lack of an up to date port of
Python 3, it struck me that for someone just now looking into PyPy it looks
like PyPy is sitting on almost 60k USD in order to port PyPy3 from 3.2 to 3.4.
However the reality (via fijall) is that most of it, roughly 50k has already
been spent going from nothing to 3.2. It might be a good idea to have the
numbers reflect how much of the fundraised money has already been spent so that
people get a more accurate reflection on just how much money there is left to
take the task at hand from where it is now to where folks want it to be. My
assumption is that people are going to feel a lot more like their money is
going to be useful if it's not just adding onto the tail of what looks to be
a fairly major pot of money and thus are more likely to actually donate.

This of course doesn't just apply to Python 3 porting, the same thing is true
for all of the fundraisers that PyPy is running. Without more information I
have no way to evaluate if PyPy is sitting with cash reserves for that task
and it's waiting for someone to work on it, or if it's mostly gone and it needs
more funding to get any more effort applied to it.

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Donald Stufft
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