On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 08:02 -0200, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > > > Interesting way of putting it, we wouldnt ever want patches to be rushed > in because of cash incentives, this is indeed risky - on the other hand I dont > see why there shouldnt be some external distributed firm of developers > working on a bounty system that is only remotely related to gnome (and > why not X, the Linux kernel as well) - a bounty hunter could be responsible > for writing the code and getting it approved by the appropriate maintainer > or reporting back to the firm why it wasnt accepted by a said gnome > maintainer.
Isn't that what Linux Fund tried to do? and failed? There has been several tries to do exactly that. We even got another offer a few months ago. If anyone's seriously thinking/talking about this, they should do some research first. -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list