Re: [ jEdit-devel ] an idea of what to do with donations

[Björn K. <Bj...@ka...>]

Thanks guys.
Better here now.

I'm personally also not a big fan of bounties.
Maybe for really big stuff like Matthieu mentioned it would be good to
selectively give out bounties, but then again, someone also has to review
that the task is really done correctly etc.
As long as everything is done on a voluntary base, it is not too bad if
something was not done correctly, because it was voluntary work, not paid
work.

Björn


2015-02-27 8:46 GMT+01:00 Matthieu Casanova <cho...@gm...>:

>  Hi, glad to hear that Vampire is ok.
> About donations, why not bounties, but it should be for very important
> bugs or features. For plugins revival, I'm not sure as it is long term, how
> will you know that a user will not work on it for the bounty then leave ?
> I have an idea of a good bounty for a big change: replace all scroll code
> to use a JScrollPane (but it is necessary to check that it is at least as
> efficient). It is not easy, I did it long time ago, the problem is to not
> paint a huge image representing the text area, but only paint what the
> JScrollPane want's to show.
> About donations, I think it would be better that they go to a shared
> account dedicated to jEdit that at least two projects admin could use, we
> never know what can happens
>
> Matthieu
>
>
> Le Ven 27 févr 2015, à 07:50, Alan Ezust a écrit :
>
> I will award bounties for closing specific ticket.  Whoever closes it
> first gets the bounty.
> That seems simple enough.
>
> If someone else makes another major contribution for something related,
> thats great, but it won't be the same ticket. And it might get another
> bounty.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:22 PM, Eric Berry <el...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Yay! Glad to hear you're alright Vampire.
>
> I agree, where donations go, should be much more visible, and I think
> bounties are an interesting idea and would certainly give incentive, but
> how would you decide who the bounties go to if you get more than one
> interested developer? Also, some projects may be more work than others.
>
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Alan Ezust <ala...@gm...> wrote:
>
> First of all, Vampire is not dead, he is replying to my messages again.
>
> I've been thinking about the Donations situation for a while now.
> We have a certain amount sitting in there (over 2k) and it isn't doing
> anything for anybody.
>
> Donors who think they are "supporting the community" are sending money
> there, hoping it will perhaps go to developers or other volunteers. At the
> moment, that money is not.
>
> If I was in charge of the donations, what I would do is put up $100
> bounties for certain currently open bugs to be fixed, or features to be
> added, or plugins to be revived. Then I could give them out to people who
> actually fixed/updated/implemented them.
>
> This I would think, could give a lot of incentive to newer developers to
> contribute, don't you think?
>
>
>
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