[openbeos] Re: Bounties

I would also like to say that I support Karl and the bounty effort. I think
it will be a great contribution to Haiku in general.

As I have told Karl before I have no development experience but I am willing
to help in other ways as much as possible. I will also be donating money
towards some of the bounties.

Cheers!

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On 7/17/07, Brian Verre <bverre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I support this bounty idea (don't have much time to help in other ways
ATM). I'll put forward US$50 each on #3,#6 and on #7 by Friday @ haikuware.
Also, maybe we should have a Java bounty (given there is someone picking
that up again).

I would like to offer this as well: I have a bunch of custom EFI code (two
working bootloaders, not elilo) that was gathered for an AppleTV project,
and some good documentation. Some of this code is not online anymore, and I
had to track down the authors to get copies. Semthex from the OSX scene
could help you with EFI too, btw. Good guy, capable hacker. The project
licensing is fairly open if I remember, if anyone would like copies email me
at bverre@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:bverre@xxxxxxxxx> . One is the last SVN code
from that XP on Mac bounty that won for a little over $10k.

Thanks Karl!

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From: openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Karl vom Dorff
Sent: Tue 7/17/2007 4:01 PM
To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [openbeos] Bounties


Dear all,

As you may know, I have come to the decision to resurrect a bounty
project. I believe that Haiku is far from where it was the last time we
tried this; if you recall, Haiku didn't even have a website back then! Some
may have seen the project as a failure, while in the end, I believe everyone
came out happy since the proceeds were donated to Haiku.

A while back I held a poll asking users where they'd like to see a renewed
bounty project - At Haiku or Haikuware. Surprisingly, 60% voted in favour of
having it at Haikuware. I had mixed feelings about this and then gave a
weeks notice to every registered user at Haikuware (of which there are a few
Haiku devs) to have a discussion about a bounty project. I also gave another
email to remind everyone 15 minutes before the discussion. I was a little
upset not to get any input from anyone directly related in the active
development of Haiku, but as a couple of people said in the discussion,
Haiku shouldn't have to worry about bounties, and a third party should help
with that.

It took some contemplating on my part, but with that discussion, the lack
of turnout, and the results of the poll, I've decided that I would host the
project at Haikuware. I realize this may not be ideal for some, but I can't
please everyone. Even Axel commented that Haiku would get a bounty system
with or without me, and that it was just a matter of time. And that's fine,
but until then, I'd like to ask for Haiku's support with what we have, and
that will be a fully functional bounty system at Haikuware within the next
couple of days (I just have to work out some of the rules and guidelines).
I'm pleased to announce that we will team up with OSDrawer.net <
http://osdrawer.net/>  to host any of the bounty projects.

What I'm asking for, is for developers with a thorough knowledge of Haiku
identify some 'show stopping' parts of Haiku that are missing for the R1
release. I've identified these areas (not all are R1 material), but would
like to hear first hand from Haiku devs what they feel is needed:


1) Hardware/driver management and database program (as described in the
news <
http://www.haikuware.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38&Itemid=1>
). An implementation similar to that of the hardware database program on the
Kubuntu <http://www.kubuntu.com/download.php>  and Ubuntu <
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download>  LiveCDs would be ideal.

2) A simple CD burning application with support for Data/Audio/Disc Images
3) NDIS Wrapper <http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/>

4) LIRC <http://www.lirc.org/>  port (Project started <
http://bebits.com/app/3860>  on BeOS)
5) CUPS <http://www.cups.org/>  port
6) Webkit port.
7) EFI module (boot EFI motherboards)
8) Haiku Drive Setup
9) Haiku Bootman
10) Intel, Via and Nvidia SATA drivers (port Syllable's FreeBSD drivers?)

I am open to criticism about the project, but, try to keep things on a
constructive level please!

Regards,

Karl

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