Re: [osol-discuss] Paying Open Source Developers

2007-05-14 Thread Brian Gupta
Well, I would have to say this is an entirely different situation, as the majority of OpenSolaris developers are currently getting paid to work on OpenSolaris. So don't let the Debian issue factor into your position... -Brian On 5/14/07, Venky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was one bit of

Re: [osol-discuss] Paying Open Source Developers

2007-05-14 Thread Shawn Walker
On 14/05/07, Calum Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [osol-discuss] Paying Open Source Developers

2007-05-14 Thread Brian Gupta
My view is that bounties are best handled for contained single man projects and tasks, e.g. - develop driver for X chip, port xyz small app to OpenSolaris (vs. large community maintained projects.) For large community projects, generally it makes sense to support individual developers, such that

Re: [osol-discuss] Paying Open Source Developers

2007-05-13 Thread Venky
There was one bit of news from CommunityOne (i.e. the JavaOne pre-show) that I thought might have interesting consequences for the OpenSolaris community. That was the proposal to pay open source developers for their work. That doesn't seem like a bad idea and I am wondering how such a

[osol-discuss] Paying Open Source Developers

2007-05-12 Thread Bill Rushmore
There was one bit of news from CommunityOne (i.e. the JavaOne pre-show) that I thought might have interesting consequences for the OpenSolaris community. That was the proposal to pay open source developers for their work. That doesn't seem like a bad idea and I am wondering how such a thing

Re: [osol-discuss] Paying Open Source Developers

2007-05-12 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:44:26AM -0400, Bill Rushmore wrote: There was one bit of news from CommunityOne (i.e. the JavaOne pre-show) that I thought might have interesting consequences for the OpenSolaris community. That was the proposal to pay open source developers for their work.

Re: [osol-discuss] Paying Open Source Developers

2007-05-12 Thread Ian Collins
Bill Rushmore wrote: There was one bit of news from CommunityOne (i.e. the JavaOne pre-show) that I thought might have interesting consequences for the OpenSolaris community. That was the proposal to pay open source developers for their work. That doesn't seem like a bad idea and I am