On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Matt White <[email protected]>wrote:
> >>> 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 to the > bounty. The amount of work dictates how high the bounty is until its > claimed. So if I put in 1K, there may not be a developer that feels its > worth their time. But then you may have a few more people add to it. > Sometimes as little as $50. Eventually the bounty gets high 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. > > > I asked a similar question a while back. What I am curious about is whether or not the ACD function should be written directly into FS and adopted by sipXecs or if it is really more core to sipXecs. I assume the latter, but with the current work being done to use the FS to use it as a VM platform, it becomes difficult to tell from the outside.
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