Re: GNOME, Bounties and paid development [Was: Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?]

2014-09-18 Thread Allan Day
Luis Villa l...@tieguy.org wrote: ... Luis worried that making the TODO list the Bountie list was dangerous, because people might end up doing only the things people pay for. Have we already started down this slop already with company involvement? ...

Re: GNOME, Bounties and paid development [Was: Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?]

2014-09-18 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 11:56 +0100, Allan Day wrote: The Elementary project claim to have had a lot of success with Bountysource [1]. Earlier in this thread, they suggested that their bounties are mostly going out to regular Elementary developers who would have worked on something else for

Re: GNOME, Bounties and paid development [Was: Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?]

2014-09-18 Thread Allan Day
Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: The Elementary project claim to have had a lot of success with Bountysource [1]. Earlier in this thread, they suggested that their bounties are mostly going out to regular Elementary developers who would have worked on something else for

GNOME, Bounties and paid development [Was: Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?]

2014-09-17 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
Changing topic as this thread has branched in many directions (as others later in this thread pointed out). On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 15:16 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 13:58 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 09:51:15AM +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:

Re: GNOME, Bounties and paid development [Was: Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?]

2014-09-17 Thread meg ford
Hi, On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Tristan Van Berkom tris...@upstairslabs.com wrote: I think perhaps, if we organized bounties which clearly and definitely improve software that industry is going to use, and not only for the singular purpose of the GNOME Desktop Environment, then perhaps

Re: GNOME, Bounties and paid development [Was: Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?]

2014-09-17 Thread Germán Poo-Caamaño
On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 15:43 -0500, meg ford wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Tristan Van Berkom tris...@upstairslabs.com wrote: I think perhaps, if we organized bounties which clearly and definitely improve software that industry is going to use, and not only for the singular

Re: GNOME, Bounties and paid development [Was: Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?]

2014-09-17 Thread Germán Poo-Caamaño
[Resending in full, as in my previous I accidentally pressed the Send button by mistake] On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 15:43 -0500, meg ford wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Tristan Van Berkom tris...@upstairslabs.com wrote: I think perhaps, if we organized bounties which clearly and

Re: GNOME, Bounties and paid development [Was: Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?]

2014-09-17 Thread Luis Villa
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Germán Poo-Caamaño g...@gnome.org wrote: Luis worried that making the TODO list the Bountie list was dangerous, because people might end up doing only the things people pay for. Have we already started down this slop already