On Google+ and facebook it got announced. I have not added a news file
in the GnuCash website because I havn't yet set the new git repo.
Il 07/06/2013 17:26, Geert Janssens ha scritto:
Did this eventually get formally announced ?
Geert
On Wednesday 29 May 2013 09:53:47 Christian Stimming wrote:
Dear Developers,
after some internal discussion we've decided to use part of our
available tip jar funds for running the
GnuCash Bounty Program "GCBoP"
The program is described on the wiki page
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bounty_Program , copied in part below.
Feel free to send me any comments and questions that come up.
Goals
--------
The goal of the GnuCash Bounty Program "GCBoP" is to make good use of
some of our available donation money, specifically for the following
aspects:
* Get some issues fixed that have been a pain for many users but
somehow were not interesting enough for developers previously
* Attract new contributors by rewarding them for working on those
issues * Stimulate current contributors to take on issues that remain
open for too long
* Experiment with this sort of bounty program in an Open Source
project
How does it work?
------------------------
The GCBoP program puts a bounty on the completion of any of the tasks
that are listed on our GCBoP page [1], for any contributions received
between June 1 and July 26, 2013.
Some of the current developers will be act as Evaluators. As soon as
some contributor sends in a patch that completes a task, one
evaluator from our Pool of Evaluators will evaluate this contribution
and decide whether a task is "done" so that the bounty is paid.
See [1] for details.
What are the eligible tasks?
------------------------------------
The following items from Bugzilla (see [1] for the clickable list) are
tasks whose completion will be rewarded by a $200 bounty (or 160
EUR):
* 514492 Win32: Crash when loading data file with invalid txn dates
* 669964 Importing log file from a transaction that moves money
between mutual funds creates a brokentransaction
* 672595 If the data file is not saved when the new file wizard
terminates, no confirmation is issued if you exit gnucash
* 678103 Crash when creating new invoice
* 691587 Crash while loading corrupted .gnucash/stylesheet-2.0
Criterion for choosing those tasks: They have severity CRITICAL and
remained opened for quite some time already.
Also, the following items from http://gnucash.uservoice.com/ are tasks
whose completion will be rewarded by a $200 bounty (or 160 EUR):
* Transaction Classifications (Bug 113772)
* Add Undo Functionality (Bug 509267)
* Make it easier for users to work with alternative/non-ISO/private
currencies. (Bug 657215)
* Add the ability to attached scanned images to invoices. (Bug
336843) * Type ahead search when entering the accounts to a
transaction (Bug 545160)
* More charting: Budget vs. Actual chart (Bug 700801)
* Better Budgeting (Bug 700802)
* Allow the database to be secured by way of a password (Bug
700803) * Manually change ordering of Transactions (Bug 700804)
* Allow saving of Custom Reports without changing name, overwriting
existing report (Bug 649284)
Criterion for choosing those tasks: Those are the Top Ten feature
requests by count of the user's votes. (Excluding the "declined" ones
due to the immense structural changes they require.) And yes, they
are not easy to do. That's the whole point of the GCBoP program.
Questions? Comments?
--------------------------------
Feel free to send any comments and questions that come up to me
privately or here on the list. I'll summarize and send out the final
announcement on June 1st, when GCBoP will actually start.
Best Regards,
Christian
[1] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bounty_Program
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