FYI-

From: Nat Friedman <nat at novell dot com> To: Jonathan Blandford <jrb at redhat dot com> Copy: Erik Moeller <moeller at scireview dot de> Subject: Re: GNOME bounty system success Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 16:12:28 -0400

Jonathan's summary is good. One quick point on numbers: only 11 bounties have been paid, but we've had patch submissions on >50% of the total bounties; release engineering timelines have made it hard for bounty submitters to get some of their patches accepted by module maintainers, and therefore paid, so that contributes to the small number of paid bounties you see.

One thing that's surprising is that pretty much all of our bounty submissions came from first-world economies. Despite efforts to promote the bounties heavily in e.g. India.

I think there's a need for a bounty administration infrastructure; some piece of software that can run these programs automatically, instead of the mostly hand-generated web pages I wrote.

Regards,

Nat