Mailing List Archive: Bounty ideas

Bounty ideas

Sep 29, 2004, 7:49 AM

Post #1 of 3 (3218 views)

Has anyone ever done a bounty-based feature request?

I'm just curious about how to get various parts of ripMIME improved (namely, OpenTNEF and ripOLE) and was considering
offering bounty rewards. The problem I have with the bounty system is that multiple people can end up doing a lot of
work but only one person gets their solution implemented and paid for, hence it's rather 'unfair' and tends to induce a
lot of ill emotion in the community.

Anyone got other ideas?

Paul.

--
PLDaniels - Software - Xamime
Unix systems Internet Development A.B.N. 19 500 721 806
PGP Public Key at http://www.pldaniels.com/gpg-keys.pld

_______________________________________________
Ripmime-general mailing list
Ripmime-general@pldaniels.com
http://www.pldaniels.com/mailman/listinfo/ripmime-general

Re: Bounty ideas [ In reply to ]

pldaniels at pldaniels

Sep 29, 2004, 8:14 AM

Post #2 of 3 (3054 views)

Permalink

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:11:23 +0100
"R.I.Pienaar" <rip@devco.net> wrote:

>
> > That is an interesting idea. I guess then the 'liability' falls back into my hands if the production of the code
> > fails to live up to requirements.
>
> and that is fine unless you want to spin the project off completely as a
> independant proj then you still want to be sure crap doesnt go out :)

Yes, definately, I already generate enough crap code to keep everyone amused. There are times when I go back through
code and wonder to myself exactly what I was doing at the time, perfectly sane coding decisions at the time seem to turn
into expressions of delusion a few weeks later.

Paul.

--
PLDaniels - Software - Xamime
Unix systems Internet Development A.B.N. 19 500 721 806
PGP Public Key at http://www.pldaniels.com/gpg-keys.pld

_______________________________________________
Ripmime-general mailing list
Ripmime-general@pldaniels.com
http://www.pldaniels.com/mailman/listinfo/ripmime-general

Re: Bounty ideas [ In reply to ]

pcrooker at orix

Sep 29, 2004, 4:12 PM

Post #3 of 3 (3038 views)

Permalink

Why not call for sample code submissions and improvement ideas and then
pick who you want and then pay them to do what you want done. This way the
'applicants' have less of an investment. Perhaps you could nominally pay
unsuccessful applicants for any of their ideas that you incorporate.

cheers, Phil

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Paul L Daniels wrote:

> Has anyone ever done a bounty-based feature request?
>
> I'm just curious about how to get various parts of ripMIME improved (namely, OpenTNEF and ripOLE) and was considering
> offering bounty rewards. The problem I have with the bounty system is that multiple people can end up doing a lot of
> work but only one person gets their solution implemented and paid for, hence it's rather 'unfair' and tends to induce a
> lot of ill emotion in the community.
>
> Anyone got other ideas?
>
> Paul.
>
>

_______________________________________________
Ripmime-general mailing list
Ripmime-general@pldaniels.com
http://www.pldaniels.com/mailman/listinfo/ripmime-general