Bought nbbounty.org today. Let's see if I find a way to put it to good use.
--emi ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On 16 April 2018 10:18 AM, Jaroslav Tulach <jaroslav.tul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > We always wanted to do bounties and we even had a domain for that - > > nbbounty.org - however corporations like Sun or Oracle were never > > supportive of such practices. Looks like Apache isn't in favor of that > > either, but at least it is not going to stop such effort. As such I am > > still hoping... > > Bounties can help the quality of the product. There were thousands of bugs > > in the NetBeans Bugzilla, but only few of them really annoying. Giving > > users a chance to select the important ones by spending few pennies or > > cents would really help the development team to focus on the stuff that > > matters. > > Please, help the NetBeans Bounty program happen! > > -jt > > 2018-04-14 19:30 GMT+02:00 William L. Thomson Jr. wlt...@o-sinc.com: > > > On Sat, 14 Apr 2018 03:23:42 -0400 > > > > Emilian Bold emilian.b...@protonmail.ch wrote: > > > > > That's a very 'global' view, William. > > > > > > The whole idea though is to improve the project in some areas I find > > > > > > of need. Because I don't have the time or desire to do that myself. > > > > Sure I understand, and agree with your idea. > > > > > I don't believe my tiny bounty will change the course of the whole > > > > > > project. > > > > It likely would not. But it could encourage others to offer bounties > > > > and it could snowball from there. It is a good idea after all. Thus it > > > > likely would grow and spread. > > > > > Also, it's not about security, it's normal user stuff, mostly UI > > > > > > related. > > > > My concerns were never security related. Just conflicting directions > > > > that lead to debates, forks, loss of contributors and general issues for > > > > the project resulting from different directions. > > > > > Ubuntu had a cool project: 100 paper cuts. "Papercuts are trivial to > > > > > > fix, but annoying bugs." So, I'm thinking along the same lines: stuff > > > > > > that doesn't take lot of time to fix, but that would really help the > > > > > > workflow. > > > > Sure I agree, and like you see with Ubuntu and others, the idea being a > > > > good one is spreading :) > > > > > I see there's really no way to handle this. I'll just try something > > > > > > at some point and see how it goes. > > > > I surely was not trying to shoot down your idea, discourage, make > > > > difficult, or pee in your cornflakes.... > > > > I just had the idea before for like monthly news articles, and such. > > > > I feel it is an idea that can benefit many projects in many small ways. > > > > Leading to big things. Thousands of paper cuts :) > > > > I think the future will see FOSS moving to funded models for > > > > development via small bounties and the like. You see that now in a > > > > manner with GSoC, and other stuff like FreeBSD Foundation activities. > > > > -- > > > > William L. Thomson Jr. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
