>>> Scott Lawrence <[email protected]> 03/19/10 3:00 PM >>> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 09:58 -0400, Matt White wrote:
>> I've often thought we should get a place on the wiki for feature >> bounties. Its a very popular thing to do in the asterisk world if you >> feel a feature is important....pony up some money. >I'm not familiar with what asterisk does specifically, but it seems to >me that before _I'd_ want to invest my time (assuming that my time was >mine to invest, which in this case it is not), I'd want more assurance >that there was actually money than text that someone put on a wiki page. >> I understand that with the bulk of development being done by Avaya >> employee's a bounty is a bit like moonlighting. >For those of us that work for Avaya it would be substantially worse than >moonlighting. >> However, some of the features like ACD are really about moving to a >> freeswitch backend, which could mean a larger development base. >And if someone out there wants to do the work, I'd be delighted to hear >about it and provide whatever information they need. >> I could right now offer at a least $1000 bounty for someone to get a >> decent freeswitch based ACD(or fix the current ACD but it sounds like >> thats a dead end), into the main tree. >That's a fine stake in the ground, and your offer is in the archive :-), >but you understand that what you're offering is perhaps a week or at >most two of programmer time at fair market rates? That's not much of an >ACD. > >Understand... what the community is getting for no $ (not quite free, as >I've expressed elsewhere) is the result of many _millions_ of dollars of >developer time. Yes, it's missing some things and has some warts, but >those things cost real money to build and fix. If you can find someone >to do them for $1K... more power to you - we'll take the output if it's >good. All very good thoughts. The way most bounties work is they are held in escrow until the work is completed. So for example, if a bounty was put out for an ACD, people can add tothe bounty. The amount of work dictates how high the bounty is untilits claimed. So if I put in 1K, there may not be a developer thatfeels its worth their time. But then you may have a few more peopleadd to it. Sometimes as little as $50. Eventually the bounty getshigh enough that a developer claims it and performs the work. I'm not sure how big the developer community is outside of Avaya employees. I know there are a handful of good contributors outside of Avaya, just not sure if there are enough to make a bounties system work. However, I have seen in the asterisk community that bounties can bring more developers in...for the right price ;-) And I've seen this work very well for those small integration features where someone wants a feature to hook into CRM package xyz.
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