[Gumstix-users] Bounties

[Steve S. <sa...@gm...>]

We'd like to encourage folks to help add features and fix bugs in
gumstix-oe, so we are considering offering "store credit" bounties.

The current thinking is that we will post a short wish list of items
on the bounties page at www.gumstix.net, along with the size of the
bounty for the person who implements the feature/fix.  We'll add to
the list as time goes on and items fall off.

There are a lot of logistical issues to resolve before we can do this:

  - acceptance criteria
  - how do we handle multiple submissions?  first received, best
solution, sign up ahead of time to prevent multiple submissions?
  - how do we set the value on the bounty? set low initially and raise
it over time, bidding?

Has anyone had experience with a particularly well run open source
bounty programs?  We'd like to avoid inventing this from scratch if
there are some really good programs that we can emulate.

Steve