On what basis would you split donation money among your open source team members without any strife?

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Published on 2011-09-15T07:08:11Z Indexed on 2012/11/27 17:19 UTC
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I am a developer of an open source project which is hosted in SourceForge.

It started out as a little app then after some releases, it got more and more popular and it started consuming more time and responsibility from me. So I have enabled the donation option in SourceForge.

I'm passionate to continue developing it for free but if (ever) any money comes in, how should I split it with my team?

Should I split the amount equally among the number of team members? (50-50 as it is two-member team now)
Number of classes, commits or any other valuable submissions by team members?
Any other idea?

What would you do in such situation? Please give your opinions.
I hope this question will be useful for others.

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