The closer award I looked after was, imho, the best way my company could
give back to the S2 project. By awarding it to the person who closed the
most JIRA issues it meant that the work wasn't "tainted" by my companies
agenda, it provided a tangible reward to those willing to work hard on the
project, and it (hopefully) encouraged others to get stuck in.
If companies aren't willing to create a general prize, we could always
encourage "bug bounties" where companies can offer rewards for fixing
specific problems or adding specific features they want.
Al.
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From: "James Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Developers List" <dev@struts.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: Feature sponsorship proposal
I'm inclined to vote down anything mixing Community and Corporate agenda.
I
think that's just a bad mix. In fact, the ASF has specific
rules/guidelines
with respect to corporate involvement (employment) with too many project
leads.
There's a reason that Apache projects are so successful, in one word ...
"community". I hate it as much as the next guy when movement seems to
stagnate for weeks/months, but that's never just cause to bring in
money/free stuff as incentive.
The folks who want to help when there's a prize at the end will be the
first
ones to dump your a## when you really need them, but don't have an
incentive
to offer.
If Struts (or any project) doesn't have enough volunteers to keep the work
going, then we have bigger issues.
Just my $0.02!
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Robert Leland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Don I have a few questions
1) I agree that this contribution has to be valuable to the contributing
company
both technically and marketing. Back in 2003 when I obtained free
IntelliJ
licenses from Jetbrains for the Struts
Committers all they wanted was acknowledgment on our web page and that
was
voted down as too commercial.
To IntelliJ's credit they still provided the license and later expanded
it
to all of Apache.
How has the Struts PMC changed since then to allow what your proposing ?
2) What if a proposal isn't on the short list of features, however when
it
is proposed the Struts community
its viewed as a useful idea ?
3) What if it turns out that two competing companies have different
implementations, which is a great place to be in.
Do we need to think this far ahead or using Agile methods do we not
want to over design this process initially ?
-Rob
Don Brown wrote:
> As more and more companies start using open source software, many,
> like mine, are looking for ways to give back to the community. They
> want a way to contribute and ensure their contribution will be noticed
> and appreciated. What if we had a feature sponsorship program that
> encouraged companies to donate engineering time to filling out needed
> features in Struts?
>
> I imagine it would work like this:
> 1. The Struts community comes up with a short list of desired
> features with high-level specs
> 2. Companies (or individuals) could "sign up" for a feature and
> donate internal engineering time to implementing the feature
> 3. The Struts community would review then commit the feature
> 4. The release notes for that version and perhaps somewhere on the
> website would note who gets credit for the feature
>
> This would help those that want to donate time what features are most
> needed by the community and give them a way to receive recognition for
> their work in a very public way. A key component in this proposal
> is the way credit is given to the work, something that might encourage
> the marketing departments of the respective companies. The list of
> desired features is also important as it ensures their effort will not
> be in vain, and it also implies the support of the Struts dev
> community to work to apply the patch in a timely manner.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Don
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