Il 10/11/2012 11:04, David Kastrup ha scritto:
Federico Bruni<fedel...@gmail.com> writes:
I suggest putting a link to the list of bounties:
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/list?can=2&q=label%3ABounty
I think the idea of "Bounty" was pretty much retired. I don't think any
have been proposed in the last year, and it is very much questionable
that any remaining listed bounties will be easily collectable.
Collecting money is an issue, I understand. Maybe a developer who
decides to work on a bounty feature could contact people who offered
money and set some conditions before the work starts.
For example, I know that two developers (that I respect and trust) will
probably work, in the coming months, on a feature really important for
me. I'd be happy to pay in advance and whatever the final results will
be. Which means: even if they won't be able to cover all the possible
situations, I'd still be happy to see implemented all the basic features
related to that area.
I tried collecting on a number of "low-hanging" or not so low-hanging
bounties probably a year ago or so, and it has been my experience that
the process of trying to collect the bounties (even though I eventually
managed to get about 75%) amounted to a disproportionate effort and,
quite worse, was a major turnoff. It turns out that even a bounty of
€25 or similar throws many people into "bill-paying" mode where they
question every achievement by default, delay payment until they have
have found time and leisure to corroborate that the stuff does what they
think they wanted to have (partly different from what they specified
they wanted to have) when they were still using LilyPond etc etc.
That's sad..
Well, keeping this experience in mind, you might consider trying to work
again on a bounty and ask people to accept your conditions before
starting to work on it. If they accept it, fine; otherwise, it's ok
anyway, at least you've tried.
So it has been at least my experience that with regard to the balance of
motivating and demotivating experiences, the bounty system was not
working out. I'd recommend against linking to the remaining bounties.
I think that any user will be happier to invest some money on a specific
feature he/she really wants rather than on "general development".
Why wasting this opportunity?
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