"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.