Well, I don't believe I've ever seen a front page post at Haiku's
website saying something to the effect of "Haiku Inc. has allocated
$2500 (or x $) for funding contract work concerning Haiku OS. We
have a list of blockers or areas we would like to see worked on, but
welcome any proposals". Of course I have seen GSOC posts and the
like. I know it's probably hard to judge if 'x, y or z' developer
has enough experience to actually to do what he says he can do; but
there's always that chance. I've had the feeling that these types of
contracts were always more internally reserved. I hate to bring this
up, but a good example is the Wifi Stack that Colin did for
Haikuware's bounties. He was basically unknown to the community, and
lived up to his word. Now, he's even developing the DVB-T tuner
application and drivers in his spare time. So... isn't that worth a try?
replying to my own post, or Oliver Dorantes for the bluetooth stack or
Michael Pfeiffer with Gutenprint. I don't mean to say bounties worked in
all cases, but they did deliver on some occasions.
Perhaps Haiku Inc.
can just put a target and price on some things that are still needed for
the OS (and they don't have to call them bounties), maybe there are
takers. Money talks. Although, I remember having this discussion before,
and Haiku Inc,'s contracts were always open-ended - that bothered me.
Either they can complete the job for x$ or not.
