[openbeos] Re: Bounties

"Karl vom Dorff" <karl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Jonas,

Hi Karl, and everyone. :)

> if you can find a panel of judges that might be a start.
> I think a monthly frequency may be a bit too ambitious,
> however maybe something like a quarterly prize would
> be better.

I'd rather have a sloppy weekly(!) prize than an over-engineered 
quarterly prize. More "Yay! We like you. Have a cookie." and less 
"Awesome Hacker. We bow to your leetness.".

> I've noticed from the Source Activity CIA, there's seems to
> be these bursts of activity and inspiration from developers.

I suppose this happens when spare time and inspiration align. :)

> Say for instance the time when Hugo committed all the network
> code and patches. If you held this prize idea then, and say had 
> a pole with a bunch of devs on it asking which one deserved the
> quarterly prize at the end of that quarter, most likely Hugo
> would have gotten it; and rightly so.

Probably. Not that we lack other people to reward. :) I find it 
interesting how people as a group seem to focus on one person, (seeking 
a leader?), like Axel or Hugo, elevating them beyond the rest, while 
Haiku remains a team effort. I wouldn't want a prize to send the 
message that the person's contribution was the only significant one 
during the time period. 

To me, 3 months is too long a time to "bake a cake" for one individual 
of the Haiku team / larger community. Only 4 persons a year could be 
shown appreciation this way. 12 opportunities per year look a lot more 
interesting to me. Or at least 6. Two persons, bi-monthly?

Rewards don't have to be -so- serious, or even related to recent 
commits. We could even -sometimes- give awards to outsiders, like Maxim 
Shemanarev, the author of the Anti-Grain Geometry graphics library used 
by Haiku's app_server.

I would try a panel of 3-5 persons suggesting candidates and then have 
the current donors choose one of those candidates. Do you think that 
would work, Karl? If there's a shortage of people interested I can 
volonteer for a panel.

/Jonas.

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