Re: [Mono-devel-list] Sponsoring Mono bugfixes
Excellent thanks Dean! On 6/3/05, Dean Brettle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 12:00 +0200, Luke Venediger wrote: Hi All, What does the community think of the idea of sponsoring developers to fix Mono bugs? FYI, I believe you can already do this via: http://www.opensourcexperts.com/bountylist.html In fact, there is already a Mono-related bounty. --Dean ___ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list -- Get Firefox Browser! Reclaim the web. http://getfirefox.com/ ___ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
Re: [Mono-devel-list] Sponsoring Mono bugfixes
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. Martin ___ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
Re: [Mono-devel-list] Sponsoring Mono bugfixes
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
Re: [Mono-devel-list] Sponsoring Mono bugfixes
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 14:40 -0700, Todd Berman wrote: 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. 3) Non paid contributors who fix bugs (I have fallen under this category in the past, as have you) 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'. Well, if you already have a job (or are a student, etc), this is just icing on the cake: maybe you can get an ipod after 10 bug fixes or something. Nobody is suggesting that you can make a carer out of bounties. Even if priced well, its not reliable income etc. On another note: if there are bugs in bugzilla that are simple enough that $100 would make somebody look into them, its probably a bad sign: we should be killing more low hanging fruit. -- Ben ___ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
