On 11/30/13 2:12 AM, Jason den Dulk wrote:
On Friday, 29 November 2013 at 15:23:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
These are good themes but a conversation with one of the bountysource
founders revealed to me that smaller, precise tasks for moderate
amounts tend to do better than large projects that are only partially
specified, even for large amounts.
That's because BountySource is only suited to bite-sized tasks. It is
not capable of supporting large, complex projects.
As an analogy, BountySource may be great to get potholes filled, but
incapable of getting a whole motorway or public transport network
developed.
It's a reasonable speculation to make, but without evidence it's only
this - speculation. What experience are you drawing from?
One reason the bountysource founder mentioned was that large tasks tend
to be insufficiently specified, which creates trouble (the worker claim
task has been completed but the payer disagrees etc).
We should break each of these down into bite-sized bugzilla issues.
Instead of re-organising the project to suit the model of third-party
website services, the D community needs to recognise that H. S. Teoh is
right. The project needs an organised team of full time developers
complete with team leadership and project management.
Totally. We're just missing the funds...
Andrei
