[asterisk-biz] Bounties.

Steve Totaro stotaro at first-notification.com
Thu Nov 1 12:57:08 CDT 2007


Putting the funds on hold or in an escrow would be ideal.

Thanks,
Steve

Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
> <explanation tone=pacifying>
>
> 	This is open source. And an open community. Bounties are not "work for
> hire" fees, where the bounty offerer gets any exclusive rights to what
> the bounty produces.
>
> 	The bounties are *cumulative*: when enough people add to the bounty
> that they're subtantial *in total*, then more people will try to win
> them by meeting the bounty acceptance criteria.
>
> </explanation>
>
> 	I'd like to see a more organized system for offering, accumulating and
> claiming (and paying) bounties. A database that automatically updates a
> page, like a page on voip-info's wiki, that also points to a code
> repository (like SourceForge), would be perfect. It would energize the
> recriutment of bounties and production of code to claim them.
>
>
> On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 12:34 -0400, Alex Balashov wrote:
>   
>> $50-$100 bounties?  Are you guys SERIOUS?
>>
>> True, some are simple patches and code changes, but...
>>
>> For a lot of the kind of features you're asking, there needs to be a 
>> minimum of at least a couple hundred dollars.  Most competent developers 
>> implementing some of the features you're asking for would make more than 
>> that sitting there scratching their butt.
>>
>> </gratuitous flame>
>>
>> --
>> Alex Balashov
>> Evariste Systems
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