Shawn Walker wrote: > 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. > Well put.
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