I'd love to pay for your hard work on the app, 2-3 GBP is less than a fair amount to pay for it imo.
I made the MIUI Weather skin for fancy widget so that people would have something very similar to the original until/if ever the proper version was hacked to work outside of china, however this didn't cost me anything but time. Which obviously you have no problems with either seeing as how you spend hours each week translating and modding everything for us so we can partake in using this fantastic ROM.
You will obviously have server costs that you will have to pay for if it's released, I find it ridiculous that people expect you to pay that for them simply because the chinese devs released theirs for free. Do we even know how they pulled the information? did they have to dedicate server bandwidth to allow people to use the weather app? do they perhaps get a lot more donations than you do?
My point is, you're obviously okay giving away your time for free but not your own hard earned cash and that is beyond reasonable.
I don't mind putting cash into the site and have done so from the very beginning, I've got a lot of people who have been kind in donating to a multitude of things here on the site to make the site even possible.
I wont go into naming people but everyone who has supported and does support the work of not only me but the other hard working developers who frequent the forums. I get stressed with this ROM as much as I love it, its a trade off each week and it can cause irrational posts at time for which I apologise.
Anyway, good news is re: weather, tomorrow we will be entering the private beta test with a few friends to test the weather for the rest of the week and get any last minute bugs fixed up.
I've got more PHP to write in order to handle different time zone offsets, again this something the Chinese didn't consider (and they didn't need to it was never designed for outside China). Relatively easy to sort out and should all be ready to go in whatever form we put it out in.
As already stated previously those kind enough to have donated will naturally have first hands on if a release is made. This also by no means is encouragement to donate, i dont condone begging and that's not what this is about.
1 dollar or a pound helps support this server for the rest of the year and beyond, we run a dedicated server so cost is not as cheap as some believe it is. We pay for a good system to provide a good place for our community.
Thanks,
Mark