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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Proposal for Bounty to get Linux & Rockbox ported to the iPod Nano 4G and 5GRe: Proposal for Bounty to get Linux & Rockbox ported to the iPod Nano 4G and 5G
From: Gareth Schakel <gareth7yo_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 01:16:02 -0400 On 5/1/2010 7:50 AM, Thomas Martitz wrote: > Am 01.05.2010 09:37, schrieb Alex Parker: >> On 01/05/10 04:01, Thomas Martitz wrote: >>>> >>>> Still, other may disagree :) >>>> >>>> Alex >>> >>> Right, I disagree. None of the points you mentioned particularly speaks >>> against bounties. I especially find the idea stupid to disallow >>> payments >>> to work on our project just because it ignores the lot of work that >>> already has been done. >> >> There is no need to be insulting. At no point did I call anything >> "stupid". I think your views are "stupid". Is that better? If you >> can't have a discussion without being abusive then don't at all. > > > Sorry, I didn't want to sound insulting. It wasn't my intention. > Re-reading my post again shows it was, so I apologize. >> >>> >>> We shouldn't discourage the idea of bounties IMO. If offering a bounty >>> makes people bring our project forward, then let it be. That's what we >>> all are aiming for afterall. It's entirely up to anyone who'd like to >>> dontate or even pay money. Either we wants to see the entire project >>> leaping forward, then he makes a donating. If he wants to see a >>> specific >>> area being worked on, then he goes the bounty route. I find both ways >>> very reasonable. >> >> As you said above, "I would appreciate if such statements wouldn't be >> made on behalf of a project" (even though he wasn't making statements >> on behalf of the project). I dislike bounties. I'm clearly not >> alone. Now of course I wouldn't dream of trying to block them if >> people were to make a private arrangement (as that is nothing to do >> with me), however I don't think the project should encourage them >> either. If individuals want to offer bounties and other individuals >> want to take them up on it, then that is fine between them. > > I was probably exaggerating here, I apologize once more. It just > looked like the topic starter felt discouraged by Pauls answers alone > which I found sad. And Jared apparently already dropped that idea > before anyone else could post his opinion. > > Best regards. > Instead of debating rather or not to directly offer bounties.. lets put a header up somewhere that simply suggests "If You would like to see a feature added to Rockbox but lack the expertise yourself, Post a bounty in the forums!" without really giving way too saing "the Rockbox project will pay for features" (which.. in essence.. is a bounty). Ionno.. just my two cents (which took all 4 braincells too find). Regards Gareth Schakel Received on 2010-05-04 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |