In email....
On 06/24/2011 02:00 PM, villas wrote:
I notice that group member Dwayne was offering a 'bounty' to the
project for information etc. I really like this idea and I wonder
what others thought.
It provides an incentive to provide more functionality and gives
people an excuse to donate towards this wonderful framework and
encourage Massimo
Could the concept be broadened and the bounty split; one half going
to the person that provides the best answer, and the other to the project?
Splitting it good. But I think 20% to the project is better. We have
to make it worth the bounty hunters money.
Should there be a standard bounty amount to stop people outbidding
each other?
I think there should be varying bounty amount. Free markets free
software. :)
Should there be a 'Bounty App' to list the bounties on offer or maybe
we can include bounties in Web2pySlices slice requests?
I think bounties are a nice way to get things done, but sadly, many
don't work. We tend to think very big on the project and think the
hunter will just fill in the gaps. If we have an application to do
this, I think it should be motorated by people that know how to manage
in an agile development way. that way the project can be declared done
and the bounty can be closed by a modorater. But then, at this point
20% to the project 20% to the mod and 60% to the Hunter. I am willing to
mod if we did something like this. :)
BR,
Jason
There is of course nothing to stop people doing their own thing. But
it would be nice to know that such an initiative is considered by the
group generally as being a 'good thing' and welcomed by Massimo. I do
not wish to undermine the concept of open-source, but economic
incentives are powerful tools and I think we could embrace this
concept to encourage development especially in design areas like
layouts, jQueryUI widgets and such.
Thanks for reading...
-David
