On 11/01/2007, at 1:09 AM, Kirill S. Palagin wrote:
Hello everybody. First of all, I am not talking about monetary bonus here
Drat. :D
I think the need to encourage more participation is something we do need to discuss. A great deal of work is being done by very few people, in at least some cases (mac-porting and vi are two of which I know personally‚, and we all know how much more we could get done if we had a bit more help.- strictly project-related bonus. I am talking about granting the right to get particular issue fixed inexchange for certain amount of work. Specifically, for confirming, say, 20 issues, volunteer can choose issue and it will be fixed in reasonabletimeframe. I understand that some issues will require non-trivial resources and developers can deny some issues (but as exception and with some explanation).The reason to ask for such a benefit is very simple - some issues existfor years and nothing is being done about them, so somebody (even non-developer type!) can do something to fix important issue (besides campaigning for votes).
I support Kirill's idea. I know some people, at least, are very frustrated with the length of time it takes to resolve some issues, so this would not only raise participation, but help get rid of some of these outstanding issues. Even if they aren't fixed, at least they can be resolved, and stop cluttering up the tracker.
I went to log an issue reported by a user today, only to find it had already been reported ... which is fine, but for version 2.0.2? And still completely unresolved?
It's no wonder some people become frustrated by such a situation. OTOH, we have equally frustrated project members badly needing participation. Maybe we _can_ scratch each other's back on this.
Where would we start? :)from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN
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