On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 20:27 +0200, Martin Baulig wrote: > On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 12:00 +0200, Luke Venediger wrote: > > > What does the community think of the idea of sponsoring developers to > > fix Mono bugs? For example, you might be developing for the mono > > runtime and there is a bug that is preventing you from going any > > further with your project. You could offer, say, $20 to the first > > person that fixes the bug. The size of the "ransom" could depend on > > the size of the bug. > > Hello, > > I think it's better to use bounties as a reward for doing good work (for > instance implementing a super-cool killer-feature) rather than as a > motivation for doing boring work. > > IMHO paying someone money to fix a boring bug has the inherent danger > that people won't fix such bugs anymore, but wait until someone sets a > bounty on them. >
While I don't agree with bounties on specific bugs, I also don't agree with what you are saying at all. No one fixes a "boring" bug for free anyway today. There are 2 types of people fixing them 1) People who need the fix. 2) People who are payed (by Novell, Mainsoft, whoever) to fix them. This would add a third set of contributors fixing boring bugs, people being payed by bounties. I highly doubt as well, that any bounty would ever be significant enough to actually make money on. Unless you think making 20$ for the 4 or 5 hours that a easy bug would take to fix (time to write the patch, get it reviewed, get it into the codebase) is 'good money'. --Todd _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
