On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 10:47 +0530, Venky wrote: > The bounty system, on the other hand, has a track record of > working much better than hand-picked developers getting paid for > their work.
A lot of maintainers in the GNOME community didn't like the bounty system either, when it was tried there. They rarely got patches that "just worked", and either had to rewrite them, or merge patches from multiple contributors. They then had the tricky dilemma of figuring out exactly who deserved how much of the bounty for their helpful-but-incomplete submissions, and not everyone was always happy with their decisions. Result: GNOME doesn't do bounties any more... Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
