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As a casual follower of the project (I use gnumeric less now than
before), with no way to show appreciation to the developers other
than reporting bugs now and then if I can find them - the thought of
bounties for bug resolution this has crossed my mind. What I
envision is something integrated with the bugzilla to attach money
to the resolution of issues, from the bug reporter perspective, it
is appealing. A bounty system that is not integrated with Bugzilla
would be vastly inferior and less useful IMHO So, your suggestion motivated me to do a little research on it. It looks like the following is close to the function desired: http://mozilla.6506.n7.nabble.com/A-Bugzilla-plugin-for-FreedomSponsors-Can-you-help-td287367.html https://github.com/freedomsponsors/freedomsponsors-bugzilla-plugin Anyway, it appears that all gnome things may be under one big bugzilla umbrela, so integration of bounties for bugs in gnumeric's bugzilla would involve getting a lot of folks to agree on it. The social engineering to accomplish such a thing has to be a non-trivial task, perhaps completely intractable. I imagine objections arising from the financial benefits that the bounty brokers get for their services, bountysource.com charges 10%, freedomsponsors.org charges a few percent on top of paypal's few percent. Imagining that bounties gain in popularity, the bounty broker services could start making some decent money. So I have to conclude that a bounty system integrated in bugzilla for gnumeric is not likely to happen unless the gnome foundation takes on the challenge of managing (and profiting from) it - not a bad idea IMHO, but I am no position to advance the concept into any kind of reality. This bounty integration for bugzilla has been on the table for a while, here's an old thread I found https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124096 It looks like BountySource is geared towards funding the resolution of reported bugs only, and I didn't see anything listed that I wanted to pay for. Just for fun, I created this one, for those of us compelled to usually use certain proprietary operating systems, hopefully someone picks it up to benefit the project - interesting they did not collect any money - honor system I guess: https://freedomsponsors.org/issue/640/gnumeric-for-windows Anyway, thanks to all the developers for the useful software, happy hacking! |