On 14/05/07, Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 10:47 +0530, Venky wrote:
> The bounty system, on the other hand, has a track record of
> working much better than hand-picked developers getting paid for
> their work.
A lot of maintainers in the GNOME community didn't like the bounty
system either, when it was tried there. They rarely got patches that
"just worked", and either had to rewrite them, or merge patches from
multiple contributors. They then had the tricky dilemma of figuring out
exactly who deserved how much of the bounty for their
helpful-but-incomplete submissions, and not everyone was always happy
with their decisions.
Result: GNOME doesn't do bounties any more...
This mirrors my perception of the process.
I think it would be better to make it easy for qualified contributors
to get in contact with companies / organizations willing to pay for
the development and integration of functionality under specific terms.
That appears to be what is happening in the Linux/*BSD communities.
That is better in my view since the individual has a contract with
whoever is doing the work and any problems that arise are the
responsibility of the two parties instead of getting the community
stuck uncomfortably in the middle.
Trying to do a bounty thing or something else is likely to end in the
unpleasant situation detailed above.
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Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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