On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 14:38 +0800, Not Zed wrote: > Oh that's a pity, bounties were just meant to generate some developer > interest, not be a process of payment for volunteer work. I'm not > sure it was very effective at generating this interest in the > long-term, so i'm not sure we will be doing too many in the future (I > could be wrong however, that is only my own opinion).
I have to disagree with this. I personally got interested in developing Evolution things after doing a bounty (the -save-calendar CSV support). But then again, perhaps I'm an exception :). I'm unaware of how the bounties reflected on overall developer interest in Evolutions. (I've never measured it). ps. I, personally, want to increase developer interest too. Thats why I created the http://live.gnome.org/BuildEvolutionFromSource wiki-page. I also think porting e-d-s to D-BUS might increase both usage of e-d-s on various GNOME desktop applications and development interest in e-d-s as a separate application for delivering certain data (like calendars and contacts) that don't really belongs to GConf (they aren't really application preferences). -- Philip Van Hoof, Software Developer @ Cronos home: me at freax dot org gnome: pvanhoof at gnome dot org work: philip dot vanhoof at cronos dot be junk: philip dot vanhoof at gmail dot com http://www.freax.be, http://www.freax.eu.org _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
