> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Raymond Irving" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 17:12 > Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Help] IOElement, get Data > > Sounds cool. I'll take you up on the offer. > > PS. Currently I'm involve in some projects that are > taking up time. I could drop some of them and spend > some but the thing is that they help to pay the bills. > What if I where to startup a paid or donated support > system on my site, will anyone be interesting? This > way I'll be able to spend more time, improving and > supporting the project to the fullest. Anyone agrees?
Sounds like a reasonable idea to have a paid and/or donate site. I'm not so fast at coding, and always seem to be sidetracked (hardware problems, daily living, etc.) despite intending to get my hands back into the DynAPI. So for me, I'd just donate my time and not expect anything but would accept anything. In any case, if you need to pay bills, you need to get paid by the hour to ensure you're not going offline or carless or homeless. :p But if you're paying for code to be written or debugged, you want to pay based on satisfactory results, and a reasonable time table. But each result may take variable amounts of time. Taking all of this into account, maybe outstanding items that people want to see fixed could itemized, and a time and cost estimate be published, and open the task to be donated to at any time (donations would not guarantee a timeframe), or if someone wants to pay the remainder in full (payment would guarantee a timeframe), the item could receive highest priority. Coders could have an account to log in to, see what work needs to be done, who's willing to pay, the priority ranking of each item, see who's working on what, and perhaps request assignment to the task. No money would ever change hands until what was outlined was satisfactorily achieved by both donater and coder. Maybe a good idea, but could potentially have some pitfalls which would need to be navigated carefully. I know people get funny sometimes when money changes hands. Clear outlines of specific pieces of work and expected results are key points, as well not straying to unrelated features or modifications. Leif ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php _______________________________________________ Dynapi-Help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dynapi-help
