[openbeos] Re: Bounties
- From: "Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:15:31 +0200 CEST
"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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