On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:05:56PM +1100, James Turnbull wrote: > Hi all > > What's everyone's thoughts/feelings/etc on ticket bounties?
I'm not a huge fan, because often you get better results with volunteers than paid staff. Paying someone (even if it's a bounty) changes the nature of the transaction, and thus the way work gets done. That said, there's a team here in Waterloo that's working on this problem, and they're looking to get OSS projects to sign up to their site: http://www.fossfactory.org/ One of the founders gave a presentation at a local BarCamp recently. I have no experience with them, but it may be something to look at. Cheers, Eric > I've been thinking about the many issues assigned to community currently > and wondering if a bounty system might not help here (mightn't either > I'll admit). > > It'd work something like: > > 1. Poster assigns value to ticket > 2. Dev takes ticket, writes code, submits through standard QA > 3. When code is QA'ed and +1 then bounty is due > 4. Bounty paid - code merged. > 5. Bounty not paid - code not merged - original poster black-banned > (ideas around this? Thoughts?) > > Feedback? > > Cheers > > James Turnbull > > - -- > Author of: > * Pulling Strings with Puppet > (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590599780/) > * Pro Nagios 2.0 > (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590596099/) > * Hardening Linux > (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590594444/) > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFJqI309hTGvAxC30ARAkOzAJ9d0paxjsF8n5P8kMXqaUfVvC6ahgCgo/xH > SNvX6IOXYfr1e5HuXvlIFqA= > =hIX/ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federation of Students University of Waterloo p: (519) 888-4567 x36329 e: [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
