[asterisk-biz] Bounties.

[Bill Michaelson]

I don't see why work-for-pay (bounties) are incompatible with 
open-source. As Mr. Rubenstein points out, bounties are cumulative, and 
talent is busy. At least the potential for large sums to be offered is 
there, and they aren't necessarily "half-assed", whatever that really 
means. No offer to pay any amount need be seen as insulting. One might 
just as well regard such derision as insulting, but the emotion serves 
no constructive purpose.

Perhaps if a more formalized or structured process for managing bounties 
was in place, cumulative bounties would grow larger and attract more 
developers.

Suppose you could contribute to a bounty by placing the cash in escrow, 
assign a deadline, and agree to an arbiter for judging completion. Would 
such a system be workable? Would it encourage more development of 
features desired by the broad community?

Alex Balashov wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Jason Parker wrote:
>
>   
>> I have personally, on many occasions, seen somebody request a feature 
>> which I think is neat/interesting/whatever.  I say "I think that's 
>> great, and I can write that."  I do it *for free*, because *I* like the 
>> idea.  If somebody is willing to pay me (hey, $50 will buy a pretty 
>> decent dinner for 2) for something I enjoyed doing - even better.
>>     
>
>    Being an open-source developer myself, I can entirely appreciate that.
>
>    The concept just seems confused, to me;  if you want to have things
> developed in the "spirit of open-source" that you have elucidated, simply
> request them as a feature in some kind of systematic way.  If you are
> trying to create incentives of a commercial nature along with that,
> then, in my view, don't make them half-assed.
>
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