On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 11:53 +0100, Johannes Schmid wrote: [...] > Just a short note on the success of bounties. The Anjuta Project > (www.anjuta.org/tasks, list is not completely up-to-date) put bounties > of overall about 4000$ in place about two years ago. Only about half of > those have been worked on since and the biggest part was done by already > active developers who had done some patches in the area where the bounty > appeared before.
The bounty is rarely enough to substitute for full-time pay. So you had to be willing to do the work anyway. It might work better to give gifts -- Gnome socks, X.org underpants, a certificate to hang on the wall, or whatever. Gnome Miles. :) Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list