I've discovered that corporate Qt users sometimes have a need for their bugs or features they care about to be escalated and they are willing to pay for it. At the DD11 SFO Contributors Summit we had a discussion during the Qt Project Corporate Outreach session where we brainstormed about a bidding system to address the need for such one-off development work.
A partner services engagement is one-to-one relationship with a high cost of entry. We could provide an alternative which opened up bidding on JIRA tasks to all, partners as well as freelance programmers. Maybe even multiple parties interested in a task could commit to pay what its worth to them and once the pooled amount is worth their effort a contractor agrees to do the work. I wonderŠ 1) How we could integrate this into the community workflow 2) How to assure trust and payment 3) How to deal with patches that are not approved to be merged. 4) How to get started Is this something the community is up for or YOU want to get involved with? Cheers, Adam Adam Weinrich Nokia-DXM Qt Key Accounts _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
