[ros-kernel] $$$ Bountys on ReactOS development - 0.2 Relase

[William Boyle]

  I'm a little late in my response to this, but why cant you guys just 
let the people who donate the money vote on where they want the money 
to go towards?  You guys can vote on which bugs can be voted on, and 
maybe add a few other tasks that you probably wouldnt see under bugs 
(such as supporting applications in the control panel or screensavers). 
 The more people that donate towards that item, the higher the reward 
will be.  
  Obviously everyone will be voting for unreasonable things like full 
DirectX9 support, so I think it should be you guys determining what 
task is possible in the short term, and make it clear to the user what 
long term goals (that THEY would care about) this task is critical for. 
 And the list needs to be kept up to date so that users dont put their 
money towards tasks completed a week prior.
  By having the developers determine the rewards, there will be 
infighting by some who will try to bump up the price on tasks they feel 
they can easily complete or are already working on.  Its a clear 
conflict of interests.  Also, how do you plan on that $5 breaking up?  
I dont see much left after the CD cost and the S&H.  Who is going to 
want to burn and ship 5 CD's a day?  The CD isnt really worth it since 
the size of the distribution is so small that most people will just 
download it.  Perhaps make things just a donation center with an option 
to buy a CD for an additional $5?  At least then the poor guy shipping 
the things gets $5 for his efforts (which is only like $2 per CD for 
the 15-20 min he'll have to spend burning/shipping).

Sorry I'm so longwinded.

Bill

Jeff Smith wrote:


>Only thing I'm worried about is
>3. ReactOS project members vote on the bug and a bounty is issued for
>like $250 to $500 US.
>
>it might slow down developement I fear that developers might want to 
make 
>some more money or something, and  will refuse to work on XXX bug until 
>there is a bounty for that bug.
>I realise that the programmers we have now aren't like that but in the 
>future, it may end up causing trouble, and if my fears are misplaced, 
let me 
>know. but I also see it helping the system by giving the programmers 
>motivation to fix that bug, so I don't know what to do about that.
>
>other then that I love the idea, it sounds great, and I'd love to see 
it 
>come together
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Steven Edwards" <steven_ed4153 at yahoo.com>
>To: <ros-general at reactos.com>; <ros-kernel at reactos.com>
>Cc: <ros-foundation at reactos.com>
>Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 6:32 PM
>Subject: [ros-kernel] $$$ Bountys on ReactOS development - 0.2 Relase
>
>
>> Hello All,
>> I want to get everyones feedback on this before we move forward. I am
>> interested in setting up a donation system on ReactOS.com and .org to
>> fund bountys on parts of ReactOS that none of our developers are
>> interested in developing. I am thinking like network card drivers,
>> parts of TCP/IP, and the security sub-system. I want to move the idea
>> of the ReactOS Foundation forward and currently it looks like the only
>> way we are going to get any support comming in is with this sort of
>> system. I have some people helping me on grants and such but thats
>> going to take quite a while.
>>
>> Here is how the system would work.
>>
>> 1. Donations on ReactOS.com of $5 or more recive a CD with "ReactOS
>> Preview" Version 0.2
>> 2. Bugs are created in Bugzilla for parts of ReactOS that are nasty and
>> no-one wants to work on.
>> 3. ReactOS project members vote on the bug and a bounty is issued for
>> like $250 to $500 US.
>> 4. Once a developer submitted code to address the issue ?Vizzini?, ?Ge?
>> and ?Eric? and ????? would review and merge. A check would then be cut
>> to the lucky developer.
>>
>> Please I want to hear your feedback and I am sorry for cross-posting to
>> all of the lists.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Steven
>>
>>
>>
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