Pledging time to a project

[alexcouper]

This could be an extension of #27

If gittip begins to have a project-centric view as may be the case after #27, then quite feasibly gittip could also allow contributors to pledge time (rather than money) to a project.

For example, I've pledged 4 days in Jan to work on gittip - it would be cool if I could pledge that formally on gittip.com.

[lyndsysimon]

I've been mulling over Gittip's development workflow and Chad's philosophy of open companies, and I think this is part of something bigger. We almost need a central place where the developer documentation is housed, along with all of the "meta" stuff that goes on in managing a large project. Not something as down-to-the-detail as PivotTracker or MS Project, but a kind of commons area for everyone involved.

Right now, it seems like most of the ideas around Gittip collect here (thanks to @whit537's efforts to make that happen) and most of the conversation happens on IRC.

That almost sounds like a project in and of itself to me - a virtual office for open projects to communicate effectively and coordinate. Everything I've ever used or investigated seems to cater more to the "we have to ship [feature] by [date]" mentality than the "hey, what about [awesome idea]!" mentality that our projects all seem to have.

[chadwhitacre]

I'm pretty satisfied with GitHub, though see #164.

[chadwhitacre]

Gittip hasn't evolved in this direction.