Re: How does the f-spot/gnome community feel about bug/feature bounties?

[Stephane Delcroix <stephane delcroix org>]

As for the car pushers... buy beers to f-spot developers... all night is
ok!

regards

s


On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 23:40 -0400, Richard Bronosky wrote:
> Yeah, I'll have to look into that.  I just don't think that it needs
> to be so technical.  I think that first I need to make sure that there
> is not an authority with a valid opposition.  Next I state very
> clearly what I'm looking for and what it is worth to me.  Hopefully
> others will agree and ante-up.  Who ever decides to take it on should
> state they are taking it on.  If they complete the task we pay out, or
> discuss it in the open.  If multiple people contribute code, they
> discuss how to divvy the bounty in the open.  This is a community.  If
> a couple of guys is my community help me push my car to a gas station,
> you can bet I'd be buying them beers all night.  If they start turning
> to Gold Schlager, we my have to re-negotiate.  But we'd do it in the
> open an be willing to live with the reputation we earn.  I don't see
> Open Source communities as being any different. 
> 
> On 6/19/07, Colin Marquardt <colin marquardt-home de> wrote:
>         "Michael Wayne Goodman" <goodman m w gmail com> writes:
>         
>         [Bounties]
>         
>         > Someone would have to manage the money, and there would need
>         to be
>         > some way of distributing it.  I suppose we could use paypal,
>         google 
>         > checkout, or something like that.  People who want to see a
>         certain
>         > feature can donate some money toward the feature, so the
>         more
>         > popular/needed ones get weightier.
>         
>         There seems to be infrastructure set up for that at e.g.
>         https://launchpad.net/bounties/, but I don't know how it
>         works.
>         
>         Cheers
>           Colin
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