Am Freitag, 7. Juni 2013, 17:26:42 schrieb Geert Janssens: > Did this eventually get formally announced ?
Not explicitly, but I'll do that in a minute. Thanks for the reminder. Christian > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
