On Saturday 20 March 2010, Markus Neteler wrote: > Hi PSC, > > following the QGIS idea of > "Donate some money to squash your most annoying bug" > http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Bugs > > I would suggest to do likewise for the GRASS bugs. The overhead > is almost zero, money directly payed from the donor(s) to the > bugfixer and all denoted in the Wiki. > > How does it work: > * a user suggests a bug to be fixed in the Wiki with some seed > funding including a precise description of his/her expectations; > * more users add money as needed until someone picks it up and > fixes it for the available amount; > * the developer is payed directly by the donor(s). > > The "normal" bug squashing business continuous of course as usual. > > What do you think? > > Markus
Hi Markus, It sounds like a good idea, as long as funds can be transparently accounted for. What mechanism is used for payment? Also, it would be a useful to have several people notified before a transaction is completed, as an additional level of oversight. Cheers, Dylan -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Resource Laboratory http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ grass-psc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc
