[openbeos] Re: Bounties

Ryan Leavengood wrote:

On 7/19/07, Karl vom Dorff <karl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


The mechanism is in place... And collecting as we speak.


Indeed. And I am actually *shocked* how much the SATA drivers bounty
has collected in only a few days. I must admit it makes me curious to
look into that bounty as that amount is nothing to sneeze at given
that someone would probably eventually do the SATA drivers for free
anyhow.
I think I missed the "developer" recommendation of the SATA bounty - as far as I was aware, Marcus had some hardware from JMicron and was planning on (perhaps even has started) working on it? 

http://haiku-os.org/news/2007-04-14/jmicron_supports_sata_implementation_in_haiku
I like Jonas' idea for regular prizes - and certainly for the first round of awards I don't think any of the recipients would be too controversial!
I've nothing against a bounty system too though, but it seems less fair on the developers. I suppose the prize fund would be for people who wanted to express their support for what was being done in general, and the bounties for people who really have a show-stopping feature they'd like to see implemented. 

Simon

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