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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: Andrew Beveridge <rockbox-devml_at_andrewbeveridge.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 18:53:15 +0000 I hope Jared hasn't been scared off by all this discussion generated - it is my personal opinion that the way he is hoping to do this is not likely to be effective or possible to achieve. Rather, if he genuinely wants to advance development on a specific port, I believe the best way to do it is to spend a little time getting to know how the project works and which developer(s) are most likely to be interested, then approaching one or two individuals and offering to effectively employ them or perhaps, "incentivise" them to develop the port, provided they already have the required technical knowledge (or are prepared to learn). This avoids stepping on any toes, and if a new port is developed to a stage where it is usable and dare I say, complete(?), it benefits the rest of the rockbox community as well (if not better) than donating to the project directly or trying to offer a "bounty" to anybody who works on it. It is not uncommon for development of open source software to be paid for, and effectively benefits everybody in the open source community as the code written can be used/modified by anybody who decides to take an interest in the project. Just my two cents ;) -Andrew Received on 2010-05-04 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |