From kde-usability Sat Mar 12 13:47:16 2005 From: Jason Keirstead Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:47:16 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: Allow money donations for precise bugs Message-Id: <200503120947.16128.jason () keirstead ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=111063528913055 On March 12, 2005 09:01 am, Gábor Lehel wrote: > I don't like the sound of all this 'guarantee' stuff. Why not just > have plain old-fashioned bounties? Let people pledge a certain amount > of money they would pay if the feature were implemented, and otherwise > everything stays the same, the devs just have something else they can > take into account when prioritising bugs/wishes -- it would work much > like votes do now, except money speaks rather louder than votes do*. The problem with bounties is what the parent is trying to fix. For example - I have many features for me which I *really* want implimented, and have voted up. Many of them I would *gladly* pay some money to have implimented right now. But I am not going to waste my money on bounties - why? Because I already know that the issues will *eventually* get addressed - it is not that the developers don't agree with my bugs, it is just that they have different priorities. I would only be willing to pay money if it increased my issue to priority 1 or 2 - as in, if I could be guarenteed that Y feature would be available by Z date. If the date can't be guarenteed, then the bounty is more like a pledge. It is not as much of an incentive. > the fundamental one: it may have a rather negative affect on code > quality if people start doing ugly hacks just to claim the money. is > there any way this could be avoided? This issue is easily avoided - see how the GNOME bounty program works. That is, anyone can work on a bounty - but the project maintainers must approve of all patches that are applying for the bounties. Only once the patch is integrated into the main tree by the maintainer is the bounty awarded. The area is a bit more grey when the maintainers themselves are implementing the bounty. But hopefully the maintainers are all mature enough in the project that they wouldn't sacrifice code quality for a few bucks :P -- Jason Keirstead http://www.keirstead.org _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability