From kde-usability  Mon Mar 14 22:11:30 2005
From: Maurizio Colucci <seguso.forever () tin ! it>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:11:30 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: Allow money donations for precise bugs
Message-Id: <42360C12.7020008 () tin ! it>
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Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Saturday 12 March 2005 03:50, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> 
>>>there's issues of code quality;
>>
>>This too is solved with the above proposal (coders have no reason to
>>deliver bad code anymore).
> 
> 
> i suppose if the bounty wasn't released until the code was accepted by the 
> maintainer and it follows KDE standards with regards to licensing, security, 
> maintenance, etc... then this is probably solvable, yes.
> 
> 
>>>there's issues of
>>>collecting and disbursing money; legalities that would come into play?;
>>
>>Of course, this issue must be solved. Some kind of deal with PayPal or
>>http://www.dropcash.com/ should be made.
> 
> 
> i was more thinking about sales taxes and such things =)
> 
> 
>>>there's issues of more than one person working on the same BR and feeling
>>>the shaft when one of them gets the bounty;
>>
>>Solvable: the bug gets assigned to the coder who has the highest
>>"reputation". Reputation is a score that depends on how well he fulfilled
>>previous assignments (donators should be able to give votes to
>>implementors)
> 
> 
> urg.. popularity contests. how does that translate to good code?

Hi Aaron, sorry if I insist.

Would you care to have a look at my post in kde-devel, titled "Apologies and 
clearing of misunderstandings"?

That question is answered in that post.

I would't bother you if I did not really value your opinion.

Thank you.

Maurizio
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