Agree that would be great. I am working on a very exciting new binding for the past year and just put it into the marketplace for Beta testing.
I think that at least 20% of our user base will want to use it when done. A place to ask for donations to pay for hardware or software keys can shave months of work off the development time, when it is only 5 hours a week that can be spared before family starts to complain. An area to post what you’re working on and promote and ask for donations. It is pointless having a (now broken) bounty source system, when no one knew what they could support.
It would also be great to know if people want something to warrant the time being spent on it. If no one wants it, then I could just use a script or two and be done and move onto something else.
Agree, because it would be great to find 2+ other people that can work on the development of a certain feature instead of grinding the wheels trying to solve a hurdle that someone could do in seconds. If we work on our own with no one knowing what we are working on, you risk someone else doing the work on the same thing and its a waste of resources, or you can work together and get it done much faster.