Sounds like a really useful idea. It would just need a bounty hunter, i.e., someone to clearly put the offered sum or sums in a readily apparent spot.
Shane On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Federico Bruni <fedel...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2012/1/24 Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net>: >> >> On Jan 24, 2012, at 5:57 AM, Graham Percival wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 01:50:13AM +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote: >>>> >>>> 2012/1/23 Xavier Scheuer <x.sche...@gmail.com>: >>>>> why I never *demand* >>>>> developers to fix an issue, even if it is one that is really annoying >>>>> my ego in almost every score I typeset. >>>> >>>> One thing comes to my mind: you are talking about bugs that annoy many >>>> people, and they waste a lot of your own time. Have you considered >>>> organizing a collective bounty to fix that bug? >>> >>> We now have a webpage for this: >>> http://lilypond.org/sponsoring.html >> >> >> Good idea! As a non-programmer, offering feedback and money are the best >> options I have for supporting Lilypond development. >> >> It's not clear how to offer a bounty on a specific issue through the >> Website, if that is even possible. Also, it's not clear there is any way to >> contribute to some sort of general fund to pay for server space, bandwidth, >> other operating expenses. Maybe those things are covered already, I don't >> know. > > The bounties are handled in the tracker: > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/list > > Paste in the search bar of the tracker: > label:Bounty > > and you'll see them. > > I think that the bounties should be advertised on the sponsoring page. > A brief description and a link to > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/list?can=2&q=label%3ABounty > What do you think? > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
