[PD] Bounty [Re: no licensing, no money?]

[B. Bogart]

Hey,

The biggest problem I see with bounties is how much one developer
creates based on the work of others. Say a developer makes some internal
architectural change to PD -like increasing the performance of the
GUI-DSP connection-, which leads to a lot of GUI possibilities. It then
becomes easy to create certain features people want (say video in the
patcher -silly example-) then the developer who creates the widget gets
the bounty but he/her work that would not have even been possible
without the efforts of other developer.

Seems to me bounties are too isolated to really work, unless a feature
request is a single PD object, or a library or something that has an
isolated definition. I'm not sure how often this would happen.

Also a feature request may be very popular, and therefore many put money
into it, but the implementation is actually really simple and it gets
done in a few lines of C. Then hard things that are significant (GUI-DSP
link issues) are very hard, but maybe not as "popular".

Ok I'm just babbling now.

B>

Chris McCormick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Why not make a decentralised bounty system? someone with a paypal
> account is nominated 'treasurer' via a democratic process.  There then
> exists a website where anyone can create feature requests. Anyone can
> also add a bit of money towards a feature request, which goes into the
> treasurer account. Then, once the feature has been completed, if a
> majority of pledgers agree that the feature is completed, the money is
> tranferred to the account of the developer who did it.
>
> Not that I neccesarily agree with the concept of bounties in the open
> source world, but to me if there had to be a system that would be a
> logical one.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Chris.
>
> -------------------
> chris at mccormick.cx
> http://mccormick.cx
>
> _______________________________________________
> PD-list at iem.at mailing list
> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 256 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/attachments/20050519/885f13f9/attachment.pgp>