On May 25, 2010, at 07:05:11, Samuli Seppänen wrote: > Interesting links! Integrating the bounty tasks to our established > development process takes care of the "I'll write something that barely > works to claim the bounty" issue. Eric's suggestion to handing out the > bounty money in three phases mitigates issues with feature maintenance > and bug fixing. I think it'd make sense to require that the person > claiming a bounty has contributed a non-trivial patch to the project > earlier. Also, discussing the feasibility of the task before it's > claimed is important. Even if some feature seems trivial on paper, it > might be hard to implement in practice. Trying to do this kind tasks > would just frustrate all involved parties.
Restricting bounty development to the small handful of developers who've already done work on OpenVPN is a bad idea. It doesn't entice new, talented, developers to participate. I would not be on-board with that restriction. --- Eric Crist
