Thank you for your help!

[Enrico Tröger]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:34:29 +0200, "Stephan Arts" <stephan at xfce.org>
wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Vincent <mailinglists at vinnl.nl>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Enrico Tröger
> > <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> > I believe the bounty system to be something nice to use the
> >> > donations. Anjuta guys are getting some good progress using it
> >> > (see their symbol browser plugin). After all, the thing we want
> >> > most is a better Xfce :-) I know some people that could
> >> > reeeaaaally get "inspired" to contribute if he got some money
> >> > (even if its only 50 bucks) :-P
> >>
> >> I don't like this.
> >> IMO it destroys partly the idea of OSS. Not completely as long as
> >> the resulting code is still under a free licence but I'd always
> >> liked the idea that people are writing code because they want to,
> >> because they like to write this code not because someone paid for
> >> it. This is what most of us have in the professional life.
> >> In other words, IMO it's most often better to get code written
> >> because the author needs it or wants it and so he is writing the
> >> code with more passion than as he would just write the code to get
> >> it written.
> >
> > On the other hand, it makes for a fine view of what features the
> > users would actually like to have, and be a good motivation to
> > actually work on those, making Xfce better, attracting more users
> > and perhaps more developers. Plus, I don't think there will be that
> > many people that will start working on stuff just for the money (I
> > don't expect the bounties to be that high anyway) - just look at it
> > as a nice extra for the developers ;-)
> >
> > Alternatively, you could set up a bounty system where the bounty
> > would not go to the developer that implements it, but to the Xfce
> > project as a whole. That way, the motivation would still be to make
> > Xfce better, there are the advantages mentioned above and brings in
> > some money for Xfce that could be used for goals mentioned above :).
> 
> Samuel already uses a bounty-system, he donates beer-crates for
> features he'd really like. ^_~

Yay, beer is the best donation ever :).



Regards,
Enrico

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