Hi. We always wanted to do bounties and we even had a domain for that - nbbounty.org - however corporations like Sun or Oracle were never supportive of such practices. Looks like Apache isn't in favor of that either, but at least it is not going to stop such effort. As such I am still hoping...
Bounties can help the quality of the product. There were thousands of bugs in the NetBeans Bugzilla, but only few of them really annoying. Giving users a chance to select the important ones by spending few pennies or cents would really help the development team to focus on the stuff that matters. Please, help the NetBeans Bounty program happen! -jt 2018-04-14 19:30 GMT+02:00 William L. Thomson Jr. <[email protected]>: > On Sat, 14 Apr 2018 03:23:42 -0400 > Emilian Bold <[email protected]> wrote: > > > That's a very 'global' view, William. > > > > The whole idea though is to improve the project in some areas I find > > of need. Because I don't have the time or desire to do that myself. > > Sure I understand, and agree with your idea. > > > I don't believe my tiny bounty will change the course of the whole > > project. > > It likely would not. But it could encourage others to offer bounties > and it could snowball from there. It is a good idea after all. Thus it > likely would grow and spread. > > > Also, it's not about security, it's normal user stuff, mostly UI > > related. > > My concerns were never security related. Just conflicting directions > that lead to debates, forks, loss of contributors and general issues for > the project resulting from different directions. > > > Ubuntu had a cool project: 100 paper cuts. "Papercuts are trivial to > > fix, but annoying bugs." So, I'm thinking along the same lines: stuff > > that doesn't take lot of time to fix, but that would really help the > > workflow. > > Sure I agree, and like you see with Ubuntu and others, the idea being a > good one is spreading :) > > > I see there's really no way to handle this. I'll just try something > > at some point and see how it goes. > > I surely was not trying to shoot down your idea, discourage, make > difficult, or pee in your cornflakes.... > > I just had the idea before for like monthly news articles, and such. > I feel it is an idea that can benefit many projects in many small ways. > Leading to big things. Thousands of paper cuts :) > > I think the future will see FOSS moving to funded models for > development via small bounties and the like. You see that now in a > manner with GSoC, and other stuff like FreeBSD Foundation activities. > > -- > William L. Thomson Jr. >
