General/Question Before there was a beginning

Is there in truth no beauty?George Herbert, Jordan (I), c. 1633

As with any community project, you can please some of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time.  The Joomla! 4 project is a typical example.  As with any project that runs overtime—perhaps because there’s a failure to obtain consensus on the design specification or the development methodology (who knows?)—there usually reaches a stage where people—mostly people who reside outside of the project—suggest the way to fix the problem is by throwing money at it.

As anyone with experience in managing software projects would know{footnote}There are three things a project manager needs in order successfully manage a project:  (a) control of the people who are involved in the project deliverables, (b) control of the financial budget and (c) control of the information that determines how much time and money will be spent and who does what. If you remove or constrain any of those elements the project is doomed to fail.{/footnote}, when people ask the question, “Would more money fix the problem?”, questions like these imply there exists a universal, silver-bullet solution to every project manager’s dilemma:  that money can fix everything{footnote}Although, I should add, there is an adage in project management that says, “As soon as you put a dollar sign in front of the answer, the solution will become immediately obvious.”{/footnote}.