I was going to reply to this, but I think Tobias just said everything I was planning to. The first sentence in particular.
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:24:59 +0200 Tobias Scherbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think this is a fun way to build some team spirit. > > > > Thoughts? > > I think it's a *very* bad idea - both from a QA and a "team spirit" > point of view. > Instead of having such "commitfests" and bounties for the one who > managed to get as many as possible commits done within - say - 5 > minutes I'd rather suggest giving out bounties to developers who > fixed important bugs and/or implemented often requested features, for > example like GNOME did in the past. "Bounties" not necessarily as in > "money" but as in hardware, books or $foo. Also those bounties > mustn't be offered by the Gentoo Foundation, a "near-ideal" > bountie-implementation would allow users/companies to offer bounties > to get certain bugs fixed or pre-defined features implemented. > > Just my 0,02€ ... > > Tobias -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
